Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Cyber attacks on Hong Kong universities are on the rise amid fresh fears that state-backed hackers are the main culprits, with one campus admitting that it is fighting an unprecedented number of daily intrusions. Top security experts have warned of a noticeable rise in the number of cyberattacks on the SAR that bore the hallmarks of state-sponsored hackers. There had been a 38 per cent rise of hacking incident reports this year, according to Hong Kong’s cybersecurity watchdog. The major increase comes from phishing incidents seeking names and data that have increased by 213 per cent over the same period last year. The trend comes amid a fierce debate over academic freedom at the city’s universities following the controversial rejection of Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun’s appointment as pro-vice chancellor at the University of Hong Kong. Bryce Boland, chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at cybersecurity firm FireEye, observed “very high” and “actively targeted” attacks on local universities that he described as “quite interesting”. He said that before the student-led Occupy protests began last September, Hong Kong had not been a major target but in the past year, the situation had changed dramatically. “Ever since the ‘umbrella movement’ got under way, there […]
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