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A day after Google announced that the attacker hacking of gmail in the area of ​​Jinan, China, the Chinese government immediately denied Instantly firmly involvement in the attack. This statement was conveyed by Foreign Ministry spokesman China Hong Lei. According to what is alleged Google is unreasonable and far-fetched and it could not accept if all the errors only addressed to the Chinese government.

"Any attacks (hackers), they always blame China. Special events this latest incident is not unreasonable especially with ulterior motives," said Lei told WaPost, who launched the TG Daily, Friday (6/3/2011).

"The Chinese government firmly opposes any activities of cyber crimes, including hacking. And ready to cooperate with the international community to combat it," he said.

"China itself has become a victim of hacking attacks, and the government has given great attention to the security of cyberspace," he said. "The statement that says that the Chinese government supports piracy attacks, has ulterior motives."

Previously, the U.S. had warned other countries that it is now assessing the hacker attacks, including 'the challenge of war' so that they can conduct a military strike against the country concerned.

On the other hand, Google reveal the motives of the hackers that want to monitor the contents of electronic mail, with a mode using stolen passwords and then change the settings for the email channel.

One of the world's largest Internet company, said that the latest computer-based invasion attack directed at a variety of Western companies. Guardian of the British news agency reported that "The sophistication of attacks and their highly targeted nature, has a motive eliminating direct financial benefits."

Google says, it is possible hijacking attacks, sponsored a state.

This hijacking attacks surfaced a day after the U.S. government plans to create a law that states hacking attacks is a form of war.

United States Department of Defense announced that the military is prepared to use violence in response to the threat of hackers. The operation of this new virtual world will become active next month.

Parties to the White House clearly does not want to 'concede', so they intend to conduct an investigation on this attack.

"We take this attack seriously, we have started to investigate what happened," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Regarding a case of hacking Gmail electronic mail service provider, instant china government strongly denied direct involvement. As known, some gmail account successfully broken by hackers are among the Gmail account of senior U.S. officials, journalists, military personnel and political activist that happened a few days ago. Rebuttal was issued a day after Google announced a possible break-ins by hackers from Jinan, China.

Perhaps this is a disastrous break-ins for users of electronic mail accounts gmail. According to some sources, the attack was carried out by a group of people who came from China. After the tragedy of late 2009, when the hackers from the country of origin stubborn bamboo curtain managed to break into Google's system and steal the codes is important, now Gmail electronic mail service provider to be targeted.

Reported by Reuters on Thursday (02/05/2011), includes the latest attack seems to rely so-called "phishing" scams and other fraudulent behavior is often used hackers to get passwords from people and websites that are not vigilant about protecting information.

The victims, including state and military officials, bureaucrats Asia, Chinese activists and journalists, deluded give their Gmail account password to cyber criminals based in mainland China, according to Google's statement as written in the WSJ. The aim is to spread the attack was the victim of electronic mail to certain addresses.

Google itself has done their security-related measures to detect and disrupt infiltration. All the victims have been notified and their Gmail accounts are guaranteed to be immediately addressed.

Google will not say what part of the U.S. government were targeted or whether there may have contained confidential information in your Gmail account was hacked.

Google search for origin of the attack that led to Jinan, China. A city to house a computer vocational school associated with the attacks more than a year ago on the Google computer system, along with more than 20 other U.S. companies. Jinan, which is located about 400 kilometers south of Beijing, is the headquarters of the bureaus of technical surveillance of the People's Liberation Army, one of the largest armies in the world.

In Washington, the United States, agency investigators FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the U.S. State Department was shoulder to shoulder investigate this case. "We do not believe there is an official e-mail account owned by U.S. government officials who breached," said Caitlin Hayden of the U.S. National Security Council to the WSJ.

Previously, Mila Parker, a security researcher in Washington, Google would have warned the threat of attack. Mila managed to save examples of emails that he was identified through routine observation and he called the attack "man-in-the-mailbox."

The method used by the sender: electronic mail accounts of victims and their contacts in it seized and used to convince other potential victims.

According to him, as revealed in the pages of New York Times, was "not new or cutting-edge ways," but "spreading invasive."

He then handed me a fake document entitled "Draft US-China Joint Statement" (draft Cooperation Agreement US-China) that is spread through e-mail account in the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency and Gmail.

When the user tries to download the document, they will be herded into a fake Gmail homepage that will steal your password.

That incident will certainly further increase the pressure on cyberwar issues. The U.S. government this week will decide that cyber attacks are classified as "war".

Meanwhile, British Defence Secretary, Nick Harvey said, as quoted from the pages of The Guardian, "All activities in the virtual world will slowly form a kind of battlefield of the future."

So it is not excessive if a few weeks ago, the U.S. government through President Barack Obama has asked some key people in the field of Information and Technology to become a telecommunications security adviser, and it turns out that worrying about what happens now, an attack on electronic mail providers gmail.