WEB/TECH: Google Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Codes

Hackers who breached Google and other companies in January targeted source code management systems, security firm McAfee asserted Wednesday, manipulating a little-known trove of security flaws that would allow easy unauthorized access to the intellectual property it is meant to protect. The software management systems, widely used at businesses unaware that the holes exist, were exploited by the so-called Aurora hackers in a way that would have enabled them to siphon source code as well as mod...

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