According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a total of 178 government websites in China were attacked from January 4 to January 10, up 409 percent than last week.

Lu Jingjian, council member of China Computer Federation believes that majority of the government websites in China are vulnerable and prone to attacks.

Organized terrorist organizations, individual hackers, or certain civil network units that want to get more attention are possible attackers of the government websites.

"The government websites, in particular those at city and county level, are still very vulnerable, because they are short of network maintenance teams," Lu said. It is necessary to establish a national network information security system as soon as possible.

Source:People's Daily