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By Staff Reporter
WantChinaTimes.com
2014-05-06
In 2013, 552 million people around the world lost their personal
information to hackers. In China alone, 164 million people were affected
by internet crime, with combined losses reaching US$37 billion or a per
capita loss of US$224, the Guangzhou-based Dayoo reports, citing Symantec
Corporation.
In 2001, a hacker war between China and the United States rocked the
world. Since then, the internet has quickly spread to the whole of China
with amazing speed, and the battlefield is wide and plentiful for the
relentless assault of black and white hat hackers.
With the rising popularity of smartphones, there are now 12 million
malicious links ready at any time to threaten personal information and
financial security. From the viewpoint of quite a few top hackers, payment
accounts which look safe can be changed at any time, money in savings
accounts can be directly transferred to a hacker's account, and hackers
can directly give orders without paying money. More than 60% of network
platforms have safety faults and if a user fails to adopt any protection
measures, being attacked is just a matter of time. The problem is that
most people are not aware of the battle din ringing in their phones, their
PCs and their networks.
In a computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits
weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. They may be motivated
by profit, protest or simple love of a challenge, and may be lone wolfs or
part of a worldwide underground network.
PW, the owner of a software development firm in Guangzhou, has another
unknown job as a senior hacker. A computer expert, PW sees himself a
non-typical hacker who loves the sport for its own sake. He said about 80%
of websites have various faults and successfully carrying out attacks on
these websites is just a matter of time.
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