CHINESE THREAT: Beijing has stepped up attacks against the Presidential Office and other government Web sites to obtain information on Taiwan’s 23 million citizens

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 04, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Executive Yuan plans to spend more than NT$1.6 billion (US$51.1 million) next year to protect the most frequently attacked government Web sites and databases from Chinese hacking, multiple sources said yesterday.

Last year’s most frequently hacked targets were the Web sites of the Presidential Office, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Bureau, the sources said.

To shore up its defenses, the bureau, which last year averted more than 23 million assaults, plans to build by 2025 a fibet-optic communication network at an estimated cost of NT$210 million, they said.

The digital economy budget of the Ministry of the Interior is to allocate NT$910 million toward enhancing local government cybersecurity and regional joint defenses.
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