China wants to force official sites to be top link on search engines
Data leaks are becoming an increasingly common occurrence all around the world. Leaked data has the potential to harm businesses, individuals, and the security of nations. Despite the grave ramifications of data theft, many companies and governments move too slowly to prevent the loss of data and to plug security holes once discovered.
In the U.S. data theft and hacking have become very common over the last few years. Recently, hacker group Anonymous hacked into the servers of security firm Stratfor and stole credit card and other personal details on thousands of users of the site and its services. The U.S. isn't alone in fighting hackers, China is having its issues with hackers and data thieves as well.
Reuters reports that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced Friday that it was working with ten major Chinese search engines to help protect the website rankings of financial institutions. The goal is to help the users of the institutions avoid phishing attacks by nefarious users that might be able to beat the rankings of the real site with one designed to steal passwords and users names that looks like the official site.
The collaboration with the search engines will allow the websites of official Chinese banking institutions to return in the top spot on searches for related keywords. The banks that the deal applies to will include institutions like Agricultural Bank of China and China Construction Bank. China was pushing increased internet and data security earlier in the week in response to increased leaks of personal data for Chinese web users.
The personal and confidential data of 4.4 million Chinese users was exposed Thursday when a flaw in the security of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department and Division of Exit and Entry Administrative Department of Public Security left data exposed due to a technical issue. That flaw has now been patched. With 485 million web users in China, it is the largest country for internet users and therefore a rich target for hackers. China is actively looking for the hackers in the case.
"The department believes the recent leak of user information is a serious infringement of the rights of Internet users and threatens Internet safety. The department strongly condemns such behavior," the ministry said in the statement.
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