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Popular Vietnam websites lose domains to hackers 

October 29, 2011
Popular Vietnam websites lose domains to hackers 

A billboard put by hackers on diadiem.com saying that the website is for sale. Two of Vietnam’s most popular websites on destination directions and information technology have been hacked.   Administrators of vozForums, a big local IT forum, have moved their operation from the international domain vozForums.com to the Vietnamese back-up domain http://forums.voz.vn, while the [...]

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More Vietnamese territory misidentified as part of China 

October 29, 2011
More Vietnamese territory misidentified as part of China 

  This time, international news websites incorrectly describe pictures of one of the country’s most beautiful waterfalls Photos taken from websites news.com.au and Life incorrectly identifying Ban Gioc Falls as part of China instead of shared by China and Vietnam Two well-known international news websites have published pictures wrongly depicting a waterfall shared by Vietnam [...]

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Hackers disrupt 450 Vietnamese websites in June 

July 17, 2011
Hackers disrupt 450 Vietnamese websites in June 

  Hackers last month disrupted more than 450 websites of Vietnamese businesses and agencies, 68 of which belonged to the state, according to a report in the Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper. The Bkav Internet Security Center said Wednesday it was the largest-ever attack against Vietnamese websites on a monthly basis. The attacks once again [...]

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IT officer hacks provincial websites 

July 7, 2011
IT officer hacks provincial websites 

  Police in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have summoned a provincial department’s IT officer who hacked a number of websites and published pornographic content. Phan Ngoc Quan, an IT officer of Tra Vinh Province Department of Information and Communications, is accused of hacking websites of provincial departments and replacing the content with [...]

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Teenager email hackers arrested in HCMC 

June 26, 2011
Teenager email hackers arrested in HCMC 

Six boys were arrested by Ho Chi Minh City police for allegedly hacking into email accounts. A joint police task force have arrested six teenage boys who were allegedly involved in an email scam that stretched from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City, VnExpress reported Monday.   Police say the boys have perpetrated the scam since, at least, May of last year. [...]

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Internet security low in Vietnam: IT experts 

June 26, 2011
Internet security low in Vietnam: IT experts 

  IT experts on Monday warned Vietnamese businesses and organizations of more attacks by foreign hackers on their websites because the level of Internet security in the country was low. A conference on internet security held in Hanoi heard that low security was a common feature among Vietnamese websites, from those belonging to state offices [...]

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Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites 

June 19, 2011
Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites 

A popular forum for Vietnamese white-hat hackers at www.hvaonline.net has also fallen prey to black-hat hackers. Foreign hackers have attacked an estimated 1,500 Vietnamese websites, including the online forum for white-hat hackers, since early this month. The list of hacked websites ranges from government sites to sites dealing with real estate and electronics. In the latest [...]

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Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

June 14, 2011
Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

  The Vietnamese prime minister Friday asked all government agencies and local authorities to strengthen measures to protect digital information.   The order followed reports that hundreds of Vietnam websites, including the portals of many government agencies, have been hacked recently.   PM Nguyen Tan Dung required the agencies and local authorities to apply measures that [...]

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Vietnam’s websites attacked; Chinese hackers under suspicion 

June 13, 2011
Vietnam’s websites attacked; Chinese hackers under suspicion 

The interface of a Vietnamese website after being attacked Around 200 Vietnamese websites, 10 percent of which are managed by government agencies, have been attacked over the past 10 days, an Internet security agency’s representative has told Thanh Nien.   The representative, who wished to stay unnamed, said the hacks mainly changed the sites’ interfaces, [...]

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Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

June 4, 2011
Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...