Google’s China Watch
The press is full of reports and opinions regarding attacks on Google from China. while I am no security expert, I have my own email server, and I have seen a huge increase in phishing attempts in the last month.
Like Google claims, these are targeted emails. Some are pretty good, especially the Facebook ones, where they copied the graphics and layout well. Unlike the sad attempts from Nigeria, the English used is generally flawless… business impersonal, but with proper grammar and spelling, and definitely American English, none of the British spellings and phrases.
So while I can do nothing but watch Google and the other security experts, I can be careful about the emails. The Facebook ones were coming even though I didn’t have a Facebook account until a few days ago, and others I have been getting claim that new security measures require me to update my email account. That fails big time here because I administer the email accounts on my server, and the accounts are limited to Kay and myself.
But I don’t doubt that they are catching quite a few phish this way, so don’t click on that link.