Grab bag: Google hacked in China

The first step to resolving the application security problem is admitting that you have a problem. Bravo, Google.

Serious consequences from the hack attack. Linking the malware attack to infiltration of dissidents’ Gmail accounts and Google’s overall China policy suggests that the company is taking the perspective that the Chinese government is directly behind the attacks.

Yikes. Okay, so just in case anyone wasn’t paying attention, application security is serious business. This is industrial espionage on a massive scale, enabled by a single zero-day flaw in Acrobat Reader.