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81 government websites attacked

By Jia Xu (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-05-19 12:11
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Hackers have attacked 81 government websites in the past week leaving 29 still paralyzed, according to figures released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Center of China(CNETCC).

The CNETCC also revealed in its report, that four provincial websites in Anhui, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Tibet autonomous region were down, Chinanews.com.cn reported on Wednesday.

The latest figure, covering May 10 to May 16, marks a decline in the cyber attacks compared to the previous week, May 2 to May 9, where the number of affected websites was 124.

In this CNETCC report, about 150 website with .CN suffix are blacklisted, five malice codes and five software loopholes are also included.

The most active malicious website is the one from Poland with .xorg.pl as the domain.