By Nick Allen, in Los Angeles
Published: 11:01AM GMT 19 Feb 2010
The attacks began as early as April, months earlier than previously thought,
the New York Times reported, citing sources involved in the investigation.
The educational establishments allegedly involved were Shanghai Jiaotong
University and the Lanxiang Vocational School, the paper said.
Jiaotong University has a leading computer science department and recently won
an international competition organised by IBM.
Lanxiang Vocational School is in Shandong Province and some of its computer
science students have gone on to work for the Chinese military, the
newspaper said.
Spokesmen for the Chinese schools told the New York Times they were not aware
that the Google attacks had been traced to their campuses.
The Chinese government has firmly denied any involvement in the cyber attacks
which led to Google threatening to pull the plug on its Chinese search
engine.
Google has said the attacks on its servers were “highly sophisticated”
and attempted to target Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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