The biggest news which HIT this year was chinese hacking of GOOGLE .
According to the experts , attack vector of china which hit the companies like Google, Adobe many other in different part of the world was a 0day exploit was basically an invalid pointer reference of IE.
Even Microsoft admitted that the Vulnerability in IE caused the hacking of the google.
According to the Microsoft only IE 6 was used for the attack, exploiting which crackers gained the access to the network of more than 20 + companies.
According to the experts main aim of the hackers were to gain the access of the password of some chinese human right activists.Probably they were also successful in their attempt, which made google to announce they might shut down their china office.
The name "Aurora" is predicted by the researchers who think that crackers have named the mission with same name, as this name was found in the exploit during analysis.
Within Hours Metaspoilt release the exploit of IE 6 showing how they would have done this by simple example.
You can see the example at given link:http://vimeo.com/8771582
Code used for exploit(example):
As this blogspot didnt allow me to write the tags, so i am providing you another link for the code.
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