The number of security incidents hit 1,051 in 2012, up 30% from a year ago, said the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (HKCERT) Tuesday.
According to S C Leung, senior consultant of HKCERT, Web defacement (283 cases) and hacking (426 cases) powered the surge, growing 124% and 29% respectively.
Fans of simpering scantily clad vixens are furious after the online voting system to pick the next Miss Hong Kong was demolished by hackers, allegedly. The winner of the much-hyped beauty pageant, held on Sunday, was instead decided by a panel of judges.
Broadcaster TVB had been stringing the public along for months with endless TV adverts and pre-pageant shows as the sizeable pool of Miss Hong Kong wannabes was whittled down. Anticipation reached fever pitch.
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (BNWEXCH), the second-largest bourse operator by market value, said errors at a printer, not hackers, were behind the erroneous filing of three documents under the wrong companies’ tickers on Sunday.
Hong Kong police said Sunday they had arrested a 21-year-old man after he reportedly said on social networking site Facebook that he would hack several government websites.
Police said the man, who was later released on bail, was held on suspicion of "access to a computer with criminal or dishonest intent" after he allegedly threatened to hack seven government websites between June and August this year.
