Google Hack: Security a Reality SMBs Can No Longer Ignore

You've read the news that saw search giant Google making the highly unusual move of announcing that it was a victim of an attack against its corporate network, and that intellectual property has allegedly been stolen. Of particular note is how this attack made use of many different - some reports mention a dozen - pieces of malware, as well as encryption to burrow undetected into Google's internal network.

In fact, Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for McAfee, was quoted as saying, "We have never ever, outside of the defense industry, seen commercial industrial companies come under that level of sophisticated attack." Alperovitch went on to highlight how this attack is "totally changing the threat model." In the meantime, other companies such as Adobe have also come forward with reference to a "sophisticated, coordinated attack against [their] corporate network systems"