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China is taking cyberthreats at home and abroad seriously. The country has rolled out a national strategy to combat cybersecurity issues and make the Internet safer for its citizens.
China, having one of the fastest growing number of online and mobile users, is said to be facing intense pressure to remove cybersecurity issues. The demand for cybersafety increases as the country faced more than 50,000 attacks from at least 2,000 American IP addresses from March to May of last year. These attacks on Chinese computers bypassed authentication systems put into place and were carried out through 2,000 Chinese websites. This shows that the country's cybersecurity system needs beefing up.
Figures from the research house China Internet Network Information Center showed more dire statistics. According to the monitoring center, at least 8.79 million Chinese computers were infested with different cyberthreats, from Trojan viruses to botnets. The statistics covered the months January to October of 2014. The report also claimed that 90 percent of the computer attacks came from overseas.
The country is said not to be sitting idly by, waiting for the problem to become worse. To deal with these growing online and mobile threats, the government moved up cybersecurity to a national strategy.
Making cybersecurity a national priority delivers the message that the country would not let these attacks to continue. President Xi claimed that these threats cannot be taken lightly as they can affect not only the country's security and development, but can also put the lives of the country's people in jeopardy.
