Olympic Cybersecurity: China Is Not Afraid Of Hackers.

US media is concerned about China's prevention of "Olympic hacker wars"

China's IT labs reported on April 25th that the magazine "personal computer world" published in April 23rd, entitled "China's fear of hacking attacks during the Beijing Olympics", said that although CNN was recently facing cyber attacks from Chinese hackers who were angry at reports on Tibet events, Chinese security officials were worried about possible hacking attacks during Beijing Olympics.

The article says that some hackers may be waiting for the timing of the Beijing Olympics to launch retaliatory attacks on Chinese websites.

According to a report released earlier this month by the China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technology Coordination Center, "according to historical experience, in order to become" famous ", many hackers regard the Olympic Games as the object of challenge and attack. Besides, the Beijing Olympic Games may also face cyber attacks of individuals, groups, organizations and even national or some political purposes, so the network security situation is very severe.

The article said that the attack on China's computer system during the Beijing Olympic Games will bring serious damage to Olympic organizers and the Chinese government. They will strive to make the Olympic Games a celebration to celebrate the great economic and social achievements of China since the 30 years of reform and opening up.

Security consultant Jim Fitz Simmen said: "for the Chinese government, it is very important to successfully hold the Olympic Games.

"Recently, by the national computer network emergency response technology coordination center, the China Internet association network and Information Security Working Committee held in Shenzhen, strengthening the urgency of network security in the Olympic Games has become a major point of the conference.

The Chinese government has adopted a series of measures to strengthen the network security during the Olympic Games. A special reaction team has been set up in Beijing to monitor the network. Once any attack signal is detected, it can respond immediately.

The task of this group is not simple.

The proliferation of malware in China means that maintaining network security during the Olympic Games will be a great challenge.

At present, about 58% of the world's botnets, which are systems that are remotely controlled, can be used to launch distributed denial of service attacks or send spam, are in China.

According to the assessment data of the national computer network emergency response technology coordination center in 2007, the total number of zombie computers in China is 3 million 600 thousand, and the total number of computers in the world is estimated at 6 million 200 thousand.

In addition, the number of computers infected with the Troy virus is still rising.

In addition to some hackers who want to make political publicity through Olympic Games or attempt to make themselves famous, Chinese security officials must guard against hackers who may retaliate for attacks on CNN websites or attacks on Tibetan drug websites, the article said.

In 2001, after China's fighter planes forced the US Navy investigation plane to crash in Hainan, a cyber war broke out.

In the hacker wars, hackers in China and the United States attacked hundreds of websites in both countries.

The article concludes that up to now, there has been no response from hackers abroad to Chinese hackers attacking CNN websites and Tibetan drug websites.

But hackers may be waiting for the opportunity to attack China's website during the Olympics. Any such accident will produce the greatest public effect at that time.

Fitz Simmen said, "I believe what I think will happen at that time, but how bad it will be, or how big the scale will be, no one will know.

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The Olympic Games are ready to compete with hackers to ensure network security.

From the perspective of historical experience, many hackers regard the Olympic Games as a challenge and a goal, hoping to make a big difference through this global competition.

The Beijing Olympic Games are no exception, and are likely to be attacked by individuals, groups and organizations.

Therefore, ensuring network security is a difficult task.

A security expert from Shanghai said: "for the Chinese government, ensuring the safety of the Olympic Games network is very important.

Of course, the government attaches great importance to this issue. "

Recently, the Chinese government also held a special meeting to discuss the Olympic network security issues.

It is reported that China has set up a special response team in Beijing to closely monitor the hacker attacks.

Once discovered, corresponding measures will be taken immediately.

No doubt, this is not an easy task, because malware is very popular in China.

According to the China computer network Emergency Response Center (CNCERT), 58% of Bot computers are located in China, about 3 million 600 thousand.

In addition, Trojan horse software is also a well-known threat to network security.

Last year, there were about 1 million computers infected with Trojan horses in China, compared with 44 thousand in 2006.

China is not afraid of "Olympic hackers"

The Global Times reporter interviewed Du Yuejin, deputy chief engineer of China's "national computer network emergency response technology coordination center".

Du Yuejin said, from the annual network security monitoring situation, China's network security situation has not improved significantly in recent years, the number of controlled Internet computers is also increasing, but whether we are facing serious deterioration is hard to say. For example, the increasing number of Internet users in our country is probably an important factor in increasing the number of infected computers.

When it comes to whether China will encounter hacker attacks during the Beijing Olympic Games, Du Yuejin said: "from the international perspective, under normal circumstances, social hot events will attract the attention of hackers, which may lead to a concentrated attack by hackers. This is true either in China or abroad.

"Du Yuejin said that from the past experience, the Beijing Olympics will attract all kinds of hackers" attention ", this is for sure.

When it comes to the current level and measures of hacker attacks in China, Du Yuejin said that at present, there are still some technical difficulties in some areas in China. It is hard to say that we can solve all technical problems very confidently, but we are not helpless in dealing with hacker attacks.

Du Yuejin emphasized that in fact,