How does someone manage to hack into Google of all places and get caught in the act?
Everyone in cyberspace leaves digital droppings, and attackers are no different. It’s a domain described by data and it gives you patterns for what has happened, even if you can’t identify the specific individual responsible for it. And we can’t actually say they’ve been caught. What we can say is that the attacks appear to be emanating from a physical network from that part of cyberspace which belongs to the jurisdiction of China. That’s the frustrating part of this. Cyberspace offers attackers the ability to always hide behind the ambiguity of attribution. Up until now, international law has chosen to apply the criminal justice standard of evidence, which means that unless you’re able to identify specific individuals in a jurisdiction, you don’t really have a case. Google is still scanning its internal networks. Is there reason to believe there are still breaches to be found? In our experience, rarely is there one singular breach. Usually, there are multiple vectors which are targete
