NY Times: Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks

The recent computer attacks on the mighty Google left every corporate network in the world looking a little less safe. ... Google’s confrontation with China — over government censorship in general and specific attacks on its systems — is an exceptional case, of course, extending to human rights and international politics as well as high-tech spying. But the intrusion into Google’s computers and related attacks from within China on some 30 other companies point to the rising sophistication of such assaults and the vulnerability of even the best defenses, security experts say.

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