Noted Chinese consumer electronics production company, Hisense, has challenged hackers all over the world to hack a server equipped with its newly developed firewall product before September 1 to win 500,000 yuan.
The company has set up a large screen in front of a major department store in Beijing, showing the homepage of the protected server and the number and sources of hackers.
Hackers would be awarded with the money if they could hack the homepage of the server or gained access to a designated document on the server, company sources said.
The activity was kicked off on Monday. By the press time, the company has recorded 35,862 attacks by hackers from China, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa and other countries, while the server remains safe, according to Doctor Liu, a senior manager from Hisense Digital Technology Co.
The manager said Hisense started the development of its firewall product early last year. In June this year, the product passed the assessment of the Ministry of Public Security.
Liu admitted that he was a little worried that the firewall might be broken through by hackers, but insisted that the possibility for this is small.
"Our product is designed to survive all known means of attacks by hackers," he said.
"This is not only a marketing activity. If the firewall is broken through, we will find new tricks to improve our product," he added.
The rapid development of Internet has produced a huge market for network safety products. Investigations show that the size of the market may hit 6 billion yuan in China in three years.
(Xinhua)
