Public urged to play safe online at start of Cyber Security Week
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Chinese authorities yesterday launched the country’s second Cyber Security Week, as part of efforts to raise awareness of the issue.
Organized by state-level departments, including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), and the education and public security ministries, the campaign aims to help the public better understand security risks and enhance their ability to protect themselves.
This year’s event aims to “cultivate cyber security awareness” among teenagers in particular, said Lu Wei, head of the CAC.
“Cyber security isn’t just about national security and national development, but concerns the immediate interests of every Internet user,” he said.
Lu’s words are in line with a recently released white paper on China’s military strategy that said “cyberspace has become a new pillar of economic and social development, and a new domain of national security.”
He urged the public to “raise their cyber security awareness, resist online pornography and groundless rumors and abide by the law” on the Internet.
The weeklong event was launched after a series of incidents and Internet service outages that stoked concern among the public about online data safety.
Two of the incidents, featuring Alipay and Ctrip, caused concern among the public, though neither was a result of a security breach.
Both companies claimed that no user data had been compromised, but the incidents put Chinese Internet companies’ security measures to the test.
Many Internet users have urged Chinese Internet companies to improve their data security.
Lyu Lisheng, director of domestic Internet security firm Keen, said Chinese Internet companies would prefer to expand their user scale and market share first, while ignoring cyber security.
During the first cyber security event a report was published about Chinese people’s cyber security awareness.
According to Hong Jingyi, who surveyed 254,000 people, Chinese Internet users might fall victim easily to cyber attacks, online malware and online security breaches.
According to the poll, about 81 percent of people seldom change their passwords, while 76 percent use the same password for multiple accounts.
In terms of making transactions via public Wi-Fi, the report said 83 percent are vulnerable to hackers.
With China’s new “Internet plus” strategy and encouragement for people to start their own business, cyber security is of ever more importance.
“Without cyber security, there is no way the ‘Internet Plus’ strategy can be successful,” said Li Yuxiao, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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