Chinese is the main source of cyber espionage attack in 2012.
Tuesday, Verizon's 2013 annual the DBIR (Data Breach Investigation Report) of learned that China is the only Asian country in the list of the source of threats. The company identified 40 threats in the country of origin, the attacks from China accounted for 30% of all data leakage, ranked first. In contrast, Romania (28%) finished second; while the United States at 18% the third largest, announced the list of the Top 10.
30%, 96% of data leakage attacks and cyber espionage related. Verizon pointed out that on the list that is different from the other nine countries; their motivation is often associated with the financial.
"Although there is the possibility of other countries with better means to cover up the motivation, but China is undoubtedly the fact most countries and sources of industrial espionage." The report said.
The DBIR is of 2013 year the company published 6, report covering 47,000 security incidents and 621 have confirmed data leakage. Announced the DBIR outstanding contributions to the new organization are: Cybersecurity Malaysia MyCERT (Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team) and Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute Threat Center.
However, Verizon Enterprise Solutions Senior Consultant Patrick Lum considered, a high number of data leakage attributed to China does not mean that the activities of the National Crime most active. High data may be because the Internet and regulations of the country and other countries strictly, which give criminals a place to carry out criminal activities.
Lum said: "We will not issue the Chinese are a 'bad and terror' remarks, on the contrary China has a pivotal position in the entire field of security, the whole trend, China's performance has been in progress."
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