Update 4Google has reportedly now teamed up with the National Security Agency to analyze the attack and try to better defend against such attacks in the future.

Update 3The Chinese government has reportedly denied that it had any involvement in the much publicized cyber attacks against Google and other companies. AFP provides the following quotesThe accusation that the Chinese government participated in any cyberattack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China, an unnamed spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told state news agency Xinhua.We are firmly opposed to that, the spokesman said...We urge the United States to respect facts and stop using the socalled Internet freedom issue to criticise China unreasonably, said foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu.