Intel Also Targeted By "Sophisticated" Cyber Attack In January

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Coincidences exist but it is likely that the attacks on Google and Microsoft were carefully planned and part of a bigger collusion. The fact that it happened possibly during the holidays offered a unique window to the attackers as was the availability of an undisclosed critical vulnerability in IE6.

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