NANJING: A cyberspace security system based on the China-proposed mimic defence theory has withstood over 500,000 hacker attacks in an international challenge, held in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province.

In the first “Qiangwang” (cyberspace power) International Elite Challenge on Cyber Mimic Defence, which concluded Saturday, the system detected and blocked all attacks from 22 teams of Chinese and foreign “white hat hackers” – computer specialists who use hacker techniques to test computer and cyber security, according to the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), co-sponsor of the event.

The mimic defence system features an ever-changing software environment, which makes conventional hacker attacks difficult to locate a target.

The system is expected to change the current “ex-post facto defence” pattern in cybersecurity, according to Wu Jiangxing, CAE academician who first proposed the theory.

During the challenge, which concluded Saturday, bouts of attacks from several teams were frustrated even after they were given access to install back doors to the system, the CAE said.

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