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Hong Kong CERT wants bigger team to tackle cyber threats
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 03:04:23 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/17/hkcert_funding_call_china/ By Phil Muncaster The Register 17th May 2012Hong Kong’s Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT) has called for more resources to help it step up attempts to proactively monitor and deal with attacks on organisations in the special administrative region (SAR) of China.
Speaking to The Register, centre manager Roy Ko argued that the nature of the threats facing businesses in the region today means the CERT can no longer rely on old ways of responding to incidents.
“When we started out ten years ago people used to call in and we’d try to solve their problems over the phone, identifying what kind of attack they’d experienced,” he explained.
“Then later we noticed some cases like web defacement where people were not aware of the problem, so we tried to take a proactive approach to inform victims of hacking and other activities.”
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