[August 09, 2011] 1st Ld Writethru: China suffered quarter million cyber attacks originating from Tweet DALIAN, Aug 09, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China suffered about 493,000 cyber attacks last year, about half of which originated from abroad, particularly the United States and India, according to a recently issued computer security report. Most of the attacks came in the form of malicious "Trojan" software used by hackers to gain access to target computers, according to a report issued by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center of China, the country's primary computer security monitoring network. The report said 14.7 percent of the malicious programs came from Internet Protocol addresses (IPs) located in the United States, with another 8 percent located in India. The report said the hacking that defaces web pages is motivated by political and religious reasons, or is purely to show off. Some government agencies' websites are often targeted by IPs that originate from Turkey, with hackers displaying texts and pictures intended for political and religious campaigns, it said. Nearly 35,000 web pages including 4,635 government websites were defaced by hackers in the past year, the report said, up 67.6 percent from a year earlier. It said 60 percent of websites of the ministry-level government departments are at risk of being hacked. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]