Gmail Hacking,What Next China - USA Relationship?

United States and China relations heat up again this weekend. Trigger, data theft trial terendusnya Gmail account belonging senior U.S. officials and hundreds of other important figures, last Thursday.
Action experiments were carried out by suspected Chinese hackers and directed to trap the country and U.S. military officials, bureaucrats Asia, and activists and journalists in China. Google's motives are clearly blamed the hackers is to monitor the vital information that chases through Gmail.
Of course, warn, warn of Google was immediately received great attention from the U.S. government. Even President Barack Obama to monitor and periodically receive updates regarding this. "This accusation is very serious," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal website.
The reason, one U.S. official said one target of hackers are people who served in the White House. The Obama administration again said that no state information that has leaked from the attack efforts.
However, members of congress and many computer security experts say that in the past, many officials who sometimes use their personal email (not an official email) for business, although the regulations do not allow it.
In fact, to CBS News, a security expert said that U.S. government employees who work from home, often using Gmail for business. White House employees, for example, frequently communicating about when and where President Obama to travel.
The information can be found in the system did not secure it, of course, can grow and spread to the serious security issues. "Everyone who works in government, should not use personal email accounts Gmail to discuss such confidential information or information on government activities," said General (Ret.) Harry Raduege.
Experiment Gmail account information theft itself is conducted with a fairly clever phishing method. Hackers send fake emails to the target, contains the subject of emails about the latest joint statement from the U.S. government and China.
When clicked, instead of immediately opening the email content, it would direct the target to a fake website that resembles the front page of Gmail. There, the target required to fill in their Gmail account and password. When the target deceived, we then hackers will be able to access personal Gmail account target.
Google suspicion directed at Chinese hackers, as if traced, hackers turned out to be in the area of ​​Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, eastern China. 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.
The place was identified as an area related to the attacks directed against Google's system last year. Google itself says that some victims of these actions are known and have been secured. meanwhile, the U.S. bureau of investigation the FBI was still investigating the case.
However, the Chinese government rejected the accusation Google. Yesterday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Hong Lei, denied. "China itself has become a victim of hacking attacks, and the government has given great attention to the security of cyberspace," he said.
Furthermore, Hong Lei instead turning point. "The statement that says that the Chinese government supports piracy attacks, has ulterior motives."
In the China Youth Daily - one of the newspapers controlled by the Communist Party of China - the Chinese military academy even wrote an article which claimed that the incident was an attack or use of the Internet to promote regime change in Arab countries, actually done by the U.S. government.
"Recently, a tornado that swept the world ... internet massively influential and shake the earth. Behind all this, lay the shadow of America," says the article, written by Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, from the Academy of Military Science.
Both even identify this as a preparation for cyber war. "Faced with this Internet war warming, all countries and the military can not be passive, but must prepare themselves for the Internet war," says the article, quoted from the site ABCNews.
They added that if nuclear war is a strategy in the industrial era, the Internet wars are a product of information age. This conflict, will greatly threaten national security, and a proof of the existence of a state.
In the virtual world, China is often in conflict with the country and western companies. A number of government claims to have become the target of cyber attacks from China, although Beijing and then routinely denied the accusations.
State panda, also known as a content blocker and western sites, earning it the nickname "Great Firewall of China". Police there also exert control over the Internet to suppress content that is considered illegal and subversive.
This week the U.S. government set, cyber attacks were classified as 'war' or not. When the tension is experiencing an escalation, of course not impossible if this incident will continue on cyber warfare.

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