Thursday, March 10, 2011

China a victim of cyber-attacks regular

The Chinese government sites are also victims of massive cyber attacks. According to a study by the National ComputerNetwork EmergencyResponse Technical Team / Coordination Center, linked to the Ministry of Industry and Digital China, more than 4,600 government websites have been infiltrated by hackers in the year 2010, an increase of 68 % compared to 2009.

"Internet security is a problem every day more and more important," it said in the report cited by Bloomberg, who says that intrusions into computer systems of Chinese companies, including those related to finance, the energy and high technologies, will increase. The report calls for better prevention and protection against cyber-attacks on the model of Europe, U.S.

and Japan. The report comes as China is at the heart of several cases of computer attacks targeting western companies like Google and Wordpress, and is suspected, rightly or wrongly, of being behind the hacking of computers in the department the French economy.

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