Increasing threat of hacking attacks
Source: Xinhua |
March 20, 2013, Wednesday
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CHINA'S cyber security has come under increasingly severe threat, according to a report by a national computer monitoring center.
Hackers tampered with 16,388 web pages in China, including 1,802 government websites, in the past year, up 6.1 percent and 21.4 percent year on year respectively, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center said in a report yesterday.
In 2012, around 73,000 overseas IP addresses were involved in hijacking nearly 14.2 million mainframes in China, with the United States being the largest source of such activities.
The center said it monitored 22,308 phishing websites targeting the personal information of China's online population last year, which has grown to 564 million users.
Up to 96.2 percent of the phishing websites are running on foreign severs, with US-based sites accounting for 83.2 percent of them, the report said.
Zhou Yonglin, a center official, said that new security risks would gradually emerge with the application of new technologies such as cloud computing, complicating the center's efforts to trace cyber attacks.
Although itself a victim, China was recently criticized by other countries, including the US, which claimed that the Chinese government was behind hacking activities targeting them.
Hackers tampered with 16,388 web pages in China, including 1,802 government websites, in the past year, up 6.1 percent and 21.4 percent year on year respectively, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center said in a report yesterday.
In 2012, around 73,000 overseas IP addresses were involved in hijacking nearly 14.2 million mainframes in China, with the United States being the largest source of such activities.
The center said it monitored 22,308 phishing websites targeting the personal information of China's online population last year, which has grown to 564 million users.
Up to 96.2 percent of the phishing websites are running on foreign severs, with US-based sites accounting for 83.2 percent of them, the report said.
Zhou Yonglin, a center official, said that new security risks would gradually emerge with the application of new technologies such as cloud computing, complicating the center's efforts to trace cyber attacks.
Although itself a victim, China was recently criticized by other countries, including the US, which claimed that the Chinese government was behind hacking activities targeting them.
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