Security News > 2011 > March > Industry chain behind hacker attacks on government websites

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/31/c_13806104.htm English.news.cn 2011-03-31 BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Two young men, Fan Dongdong and Wen Chao, who have only a junior high school education, received 18- and 12-month sentences for hacking into the website of the country's Supreme People's Procuratorate, the top agency for legal supervision, and more than a dozen other government websites. Xin Zuguo, a judge with the People's Court of Chaoyang District in Beijing, said this was not an isolated case. From May 10 to 16 of last year, 81 government websites on the mainland were hacked and altered, including four ministry-level websites, according to the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC). The rampant hacking against government websites is aimed at making illegal profits, and an "industry chain" already exists, Xinhua reported. The hackers can make money by putting illegal links on the government websites. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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