Hackers made nearly 1.61 million attacks on the Turkish Undersecretariat of Treasury's computer system in the first half of 2014. According to an article by Turkish news website Gazetevatan, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Member of Parliament Özcan Yeniçeri submitted a parliamentary question inquiring into the level of attacks that occurred and whether there was any data loss; he requested an answer from Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan. Babacan stated that the system security of the Undersecretariat of Treasury is at a high level and the number of cyberattacks made between Jan. 1 and June 30 of this year was 1,612,796.
Babacan said that 63 percent of those attacks were made from Turkey while 11 percent were made from Germany, 4 percent from Russia, 4 percent from the U.S., 3 percent from China, 3 percent from the Netherlands, 2 percent from Ukraine and the rest from Japan, Brazil, South Korea, France, England, Taiwan, Canada, India, Bulgaria and 56 other countries. Babacan also claimed that there wasn't any data or information loss despite the intensive attacks.
Babacan emphasized that the Undersecretariat of Treasury's computer security system is updated on a regular basis. He added, "Keeping information security systems up-to-date and making daily and weekly maintenance are carried out in the scope of annual maintenance, repair and updating agreements. Those systems include intrusion prevention systems, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, web application firewalls, antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spam, URL filtering, Risk Assessment and Risk-driven Testing, Information Security Management System Certification, back-up, emergency management, virtual platform security and network access control systems."
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