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国白宫周四力挺谷歌(Google Inc.)停止审查中国搜索引擎的计划，而中国政府则出言捍卫自己的互联网政策，称中国欢迎国际互联网企业在中国依法开展业务。微软(Microsoft Corp.)周四确认黑客是通过IE网络浏览器的安全漏洞攻击了谷歌和其他公司，并表示正与谷歌合作调查此事。
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白宫发言人尼克•夏皮罗(Nick Shapiro)说，这一被谷歌归咎于中国的网络入侵事件令人困扰，美国政府将继续关注事态发展。
夏皮罗补充指出，美国政府强烈反对因政治原因非法入侵私人邮件帐户，我们对谷歌决定有关不再审查google.cn搜索结果的做法表示赞赏。
当在新闻发布会上被问及美国政府支持谷歌是否有损中美关系时，白宫发言人罗伯特•吉布斯(Robert Gibbs)说，总统深信人权概念具有普适性，人权并非仅为某些国家所独有。
自从全球搜索引擎巨头Google踏入中文服务这个广阔却限制严格的市场，它就一直在平衡其发展雄心与坚持“不作恶”原则间苦苦挣扎。
奥巴马在当时的讲话中还特别提到了谷歌。他说，如果互联网世界不支持自由与公开，那么谷歌将无以存身。
周四早些时候，中国官员在表态中并未透露将如何应对谷歌威胁停止过滤本地搜索结果及可能退出中国市场一事。截至当日，谷歌仍在审查其中文网站google.cn的搜索结果。
中国外交部发言人姜瑜在周四的例行记者会上说，中国同其他国家一样，依法管理互联网；中国的互联网是开放的；中国的法律禁止任何形式的黑客攻击行为。
谷歌周二表示，公司侦测到了一次来自中国、针对公司基础架构发起的非常高技术、有针对性的攻击，同时其他外国实体也受到了攻击。这一事件加上中国对言论自由的控制程度加剧，促使谷歌决定它不该再继续对其四年建立的本土网站google.cn的搜索结果进行审查，并可能就此退出中国业务。
谷歌的声明显然令中国政府猝不及防，也令其他大多数国家深感震惊。中国政府官员一度拒绝讨论这一问题，而且到现在也不清楚中方可能针对谷歌采取什么样的行动。最终，中国政府可能（如果它决意如此的话）强令google.cn关闭，并屏蔽中国网民接入谷歌未经审查的全球网站google.com及其他服务。
姜瑜说，有关管理措施符合国际通行做法。她还强调，中国欢迎国际互联网企业在中国依法开展业务。
当被要求谷歌声称的网络攻击事件发表评论时，姜瑜强调这种攻击行为是违反中国法律的。但她拒绝就中国政府自身是否受到这种法律的约束置评，并要记者询问相关部门。
知情人士透露，谷歌管理层预计公司或许过一段时间才能和中国政府高级官员进入实质讨论阶段。与此同时，公司仍在审视中国业务，并继续调查攻击事件。
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网络安全公司McAfee Inc.的首席技术长乔治•科兹(George Kurtz)说，一旦恶意软件植入受害者的电脑，那么将使黑客有能力控制这台电脑，并窃取敏感信息。
据了解这些攻击的知情人士透露，黑客试图通过六个台湾的网络地址来掩饰自己的身份，这是中国大陆黑客的惯常策略。
六个地址中，有五个为提供网络电视电影的年代数位媒体股份有限公司(Era Digital Media Co.)所有。该公司表示对攻击并不知情，并拒绝发表更多评论。第六个地址为金融软件提供商奇唯科技股份有限公司所有。奇唯表示，已于6月份弃用相关地址。
台湾内政部警政署科技犯罪防制中心主任李相臣表示，两家公司本身可能就是受害者。
中国公众对谷歌威胁退出的反应各不相同。很多互联网用户对谷歌表示了支持，尽管谷歌中文网站也要进行审查，但被普遍认为审查程度低于中国国内网站。
周四官方媒体对谷歌的举动大多以抨击为主，但部分报道也强调，谷歌的退出会成为中国的一个重大损失。
周四美国一些共和党议员呼吁其他科技公司效仿谷歌，对它们在中国的业务进行检讨。
来自弗吉尼亚州的共和党众议员伍尔夫(Frank Wolf)周四说，我敦促商界其他发现自己身受中国刺探活动及公然侵犯知识产权行为之害的公司和谷歌一起，大胆声张，并采取行动。
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The White House on Thursday came out forcefully behind Google Inc.'s plan to stop censoring its search engine in China, while Beijing defended its Internet policies, saying foreign Web companies were welcome to do business in the country 'in accordance with the law.'
Microsoft Corp. Thursday confirmed that hackers used a security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser in an attack on Google and other companies and said it was working with Google to investigate the issue.
To exploit the security hole, hackers must trick users into visiting a Web site loaded with malicious code, Microsoft said.
'The recent cyber intrusion that Google attributes to China is troubling and the U.S. government is looking into it,' said White House spokesman Nick Shapiro.
The administration is strongly opposed to the 'illicit targeting of private email accounts for political reasons,' he added. 'We applaud Google's decision to discontinue censorship of search results on google.cn.'
Asked at a briefing whether supporting Google could erode the U.S.'s relationship with China, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, 'the president has strong beliefs about the universal rights of men and women throughout the globe. Those aren't carved out for certain countries.'
President Barack Obama gave a speech on the importance of open Internet use during a trip to China in November. In a speech at a town hall meeting in Shanghai, the president described himself as a 'big supporter of noncensorship.'
His remarks also singled out Google. 'If it had not been for the freedom and the openness that the Internet allows, Google wouldn't exist,' he said.
Earlier Thursday in China, officials stopped short of saying how they would deal with the U.S. Internet giant's threat to stop filtering its search results and potentially leave China. As of Thursday, Google continued censoring search results on its Chinese language site, google.cn.
'China, like other countries, manages its Internet according to the law,' Jiang Yu, spokeswoman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Thursday at a press briefing. Ms. Jiang said China's Internet is open and that it has laws against online crimes such as hacking.
Google Tuesday said it had discovered a sophisticated attack on its computer system originating in China and that other foreign entities were hit in related attacks. That, and China's intensifying clampdown on free speech, prompted Google to decide it couldn't continue censoring google.cn -- as it has done since the Chinese-language site was launched four years ago -- and might need to shut its Chinese operations.
China's government was clearly caught off guard by Google's statement -- like most of the world. Officials in Beijing had refused to discuss the issue, and it remains unclear what action they might take against Google. Ultimately, if it chose to, the government could both force the closure of google.cn and block access in China to Google's uncensored global site, google.com, and to its other Google services.
Ms. Jiang said China's 'measures are in line with international practice,' and emphasized that 'we welcome international Internet companies to do business in China in accordance with the law.'
Asked about the allegations of cyber attacks, she stressed the illegality of such attacks under Chinese law. But she declined to say if the Chinese government itself is bound by those laws, referring the question to 'relevant authorities.'
Google officials expect it may take time to enter into substantive discussions with senior Chinese officials, according to people briefed on the matter. Meanwhile, the company is continuing to review its business operations in China and investigate the attack, these people said.
Microsoft said it hadn't 'seen widespread customer impact, rather only targeted and limited attacks' exploiting the security hole in Internet Explorer. The company said it might release a software update to fix the problem, adding that adjusting the browser's security settings to 'high' will protect users from vulnerability.
George Kurtz, chief technology officer at computer-security company McAfee Inc., said once the malicious software was installed on a victim's computer, it gave the attacker the ability to control the computer and steal sensitive information.
People familiar with the attacks say the hackers tried to mask their identity by routing their efforts through six Internet addresses located in Taiwan, a common tactic used by Chinese hackers.
Five of the six addresses were owned by Era Digital Media Co., a company that provides television programs and movies through the Internet. Era Digital said it wasn't aware of the attack and declined to comment further. The sixth address is owned by Qi Wei Technology Co., a financial-software provider. Qi Wei said it had stopped using the relevant address in June.
Lee Hsiang-chen, director of Taiwan National Police Agency's High-Tech Criminal Center, said the two companies were likely victims themselves.
Chinese public reaction to Google's threat to withdraw has been mixed. Many Internet users have expressed support for the company, which despite the censorship of its Chinese site is widely seen as less censored than Chinese sites.
State-run media on Thursday carried largely critical treatment of Google's move, although some reports also emphasized that the company's withdrawal would be a major loss for China.
A group of Republican lawmakers Thursday called on executives of other technology companies to follow Google's lead and conduct a review of their operations in China.
'I urge others in the business community who have found themselves victim of China's spying and flagrant intellectual property violations...to join Google and speak out and take action,' Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.) said Thursday.
Aaron Back / Ting-I Tsai
Microsoft Corp. Thursday confirmed that hackers used a security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser in an attack on Google and other companies and said it was working with Google to investigate the issue.
To exploit the security hole, hackers must trick users into visiting a Web site loaded with malicious code, Microsoft said.
'The recent cyber intrusion that Google attributes to China is troubling and the U.S. government is looking into it,' said White House spokesman Nick Shapiro.
The administration is strongly opposed to the 'illicit targeting of private email accounts for political reasons,' he added. 'We applaud Google's decision to discontinue censorship of search results on google.cn.'
Asked at a briefing whether supporting Google could erode the U.S.'s relationship with China, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, 'the president has strong beliefs about the universal rights of men and women throughout the globe. Those aren't carved out for certain countries.'
President Barack Obama gave a speech on the importance of open Internet use during a trip to China in November. In a speech at a town hall meeting in Shanghai, the president described himself as a 'big supporter of noncensorship.'
His remarks also singled out Google. 'If it had not been for the freedom and the openness that the Internet allows, Google wouldn't exist,' he said.
Earlier Thursday in China, officials stopped short of saying how they would deal with the U.S. Internet giant's threat to stop filtering its search results and potentially leave China. As of Thursday, Google continued censoring search results on its Chinese language site, google.cn.
'China, like other countries, manages its Internet according to the law,' Jiang Yu, spokeswoman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Thursday at a press briefing. Ms. Jiang said China's Internet is open and that it has laws against online crimes such as hacking.
Google Tuesday said it had discovered a sophisticated attack on its computer system originating in China and that other foreign entities were hit in related attacks. That, and China's intensifying clampdown on free speech, prompted Google to decide it couldn't continue censoring google.cn -- as it has done since the Chinese-language site was launched four years ago -- and might need to shut its Chinese operations.
China's government was clearly caught off guard by Google's statement -- like most of the world. Officials in Beijing had refused to discuss the issue, and it remains unclear what action they might take against Google. Ultimately, if it chose to, the government could both force the closure of google.cn and block access in China to Google's uncensored global site, google.com, and to its other Google services.
Ms. Jiang said China's 'measures are in line with international practice,' and emphasized that 'we welcome international Internet companies to do business in China in accordance with the law.'
Asked about the allegations of cyber attacks, she stressed the illegality of such attacks under Chinese law. But she declined to say if the Chinese government itself is bound by those laws, referring the question to 'relevant authorities.'
Google officials expect it may take time to enter into substantive discussions with senior Chinese officials, according to people briefed on the matter. Meanwhile, the company is continuing to review its business operations in China and investigate the attack, these people said.
Microsoft said it hadn't 'seen widespread customer impact, rather only targeted and limited attacks' exploiting the security hole in Internet Explorer. The company said it might release a software update to fix the problem, adding that adjusting the browser's security settings to 'high' will protect users from vulnerability.
George Kurtz, chief technology officer at computer-security company McAfee Inc., said once the malicious software was installed on a victim's computer, it gave the attacker the ability to control the computer and steal sensitive information.
People familiar with the attacks say the hackers tried to mask their identity by routing their efforts through six Internet addresses located in Taiwan, a common tactic used by Chinese hackers.
Five of the six addresses were owned by Era Digital Media Co., a company that provides television programs and movies through the Internet. Era Digital said it wasn't aware of the attack and declined to comment further. The sixth address is owned by Qi Wei Technology Co., a financial-software provider. Qi Wei said it had stopped using the relevant address in June.
Lee Hsiang-chen, director of Taiwan National Police Agency's High-Tech Criminal Center, said the two companies were likely victims themselves.
Chinese public reaction to Google's threat to withdraw has been mixed. Many Internet users have expressed support for the company, which despite the censorship of its Chinese site is widely seen as less censored than Chinese sites.
State-run media on Thursday carried largely critical treatment of Google's move, although some reports also emphasized that the company's withdrawal would be a major loss for China.
A group of Republican lawmakers Thursday called on executives of other technology companies to follow Google's lead and conduct a review of their operations in China.
'I urge others in the business community who have found themselves victim of China's spying and flagrant intellectual property violations...to join Google and speak out and take action,' Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.) said Thursday.
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