According to Gu Jian, Deputy Director of the Network Security Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), China is all set to fight against the hacking attacks as the government is drafting law governing the punishment of hackers and other cyber offences, as reported by ShanghaiDaily on November 11, 2010.

He further highlighted that presently, lawmakers are working on the judicial interpretations of the new law, which will be released by the end of 2010.

Gu stated that nearly 80% of the machines in China are facing the problem of botnet attacks, whereby hackers use malicious software to attack and compromise machines.

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