2009 was an abysmal year in terms of cybersecurity, as cyberattacks and data breaches doubled from 2008. The most publicized event occurred when Google became embroiled in a heated dispute with China over the nation’s involvement in a hack on the search engine. Google even threatened to shutter its Google China service because of the incident, which Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair called a “wake-up call.”
Blair believes the Google hack may only represent the beginning of a wave cyber-assaults, as he recently predicted a massive attack on U.S. telecommunications and computer networks to occur within the next six months. The federal government and Google aren’t going to sit idly by though, and are reacting to the “wake-up call” by forging a cyber-alliance. According to the Washington Post, Google and the National Security Agency are partnering in order to intensely scrutinize the China attack, identify weaknesses, and then take precautionary measures in order to improve cyber-security.
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