First half of 2019 saw more than 75,000 hacking attempts
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/07
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
NSC fended off thousands of hacking attacks last year. (By Associated Press)
The data came to light as the NSC presented its annual budget to the Legislative Yuan, the Liberty Times reported.
Commentators saw a link between the high number of attacks and China’s attempts at penetrating further into Taiwan’s infrastructure in order to try and paralyze basic systems.
The NSC emphasized that all the attempts at hacking recorded over the past 18 months had all failed. They had been tracked down on time and prevented from achieving success, the government body said. [FULL STORY]
