It's an eventful day. Just as Adobe released an important new version of Acrobat, the company has also revealed that "...a sophisticated, coordinated attack..." was mounted "...against corporate network systems managed by Adobe and other companies..." At the same time, Google has revealed that a coordinated attack was mounted against their systems.
Both companies say that the attacks were unsuccessful. Adobe says that the investigation will take some time and that they will cooperate with the other companies and relevant governments.
Google's revelation of the attacks against them is much more detailed and interesting. The attacks turned out to be a coordinated attack on 20 companies in a variety of industries. But it gets worse: According to Google the primary goal of these attacks was to compromise the GMail accounts of human rights activists.
Enough is enough for Google it seems, and they have resolved not to censor their search results for their servers in China anymore. This may lead to the end of their business in China, but hurray for Google either way, and let's hope that other companies are as bold as they are about this.
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