Google accuses China of fiddling with its Gmail Services
Submitted by Gina on March 21, 2011 - 9:09pm
Gmail users in China have been complaining of problems in their e-mail services since last month. Many users are experiencing difficulties while sending e-mails, checking them as unread and many other problems, confirmed the company.
Google representative claimed that the company had gone through extensive verifications and found no issue from its side. The official blamed the situation of being a government blockage, cautiously intended to look as if it’s a Gmail’s problem.
'Windows MHTML vulnerability’ at Google
The Chinese exposure comes in the wake of Google’s March 11 Security blog where the company asserted of having "noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target."
The blog-post aimed towards a serious ‘Windows MHTML vulnerability’ that was exposed by Microsoft in January.
A typical ‘Windows MHTML vulnerability’ situation assists internet hackers to abuse user's information through illegal access into his account.
The string of events leading to current scenario
At the moment, high differences prevail between China and Google since Google has released the theft of intellectual property in January 2010, and making it public that Google and other companies were victimized by "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" in a bid to illegally gather records on human rights advocates.
Meanwhile, Chinese government has been continually denying any such involvements.
Consequently, in March 2010, Google had declared to shift its Chinese-language Internet search operations from China to Hong Kong, to condemn and evade Chinese censorship laws.
In June 2010, Google found out that its users in China were not able to access search-suggestions function offer by the Google.
However, Chinese government was not blamed for the snag, at that time. Following month Google's license, to continue site service in the country, was also renewed by the Chinese government.
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