Saturday, April 01, 2006

Attacks on Chinese government Websites doubled

Internet hackers doubled the number of attacks on Chinese government websites in 2005 over the previous year, figures from the National computer Network Emergency Response Technical Coordination Center of China show. Hackers targeted government websites amounted to 2,027 times, one sixth of the 13,000 attacks, in China last year, China has more than 1,200 government websites and three quarters of Chinese counties have opened their own government websites. Without efficient security and emergency response systems, leaking of important information is easy limiting the development of e-government of China Why? Why are more and more people attempting to hack government websites? Is it their way of rebelling against their government or merely an enigma?

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