In related news, according to BKAV, a network security firm, 3690 new types of computer virus appeared in Vietnam in June 2011.The viruses have been infected by 6,955,000 computers. Especially, W32.Sality.PE has been spreading at the highest speed, with 481,000 computers infected.
Nguyen Viet The, Head of the Professional Informatics Technology Department under the Ministry of Public Security, has said on Buu Dien, that competent agencies have found the malware specializing in stealing confidential information which can be infected through a USB or the malware, can penetrate through back door into computers, then automatically steal all sensitive documents stored in the computers to be saved at external addresses.
The noteworthy thing is that all nearly all the existing anti-virus software products cannot kill the malicious code. In some cases, the draft versions of important documents, or the draft agreements in international negotiations have been leaking.
According to The, there are two most popular types of attacks, including deface attacks and DDoS (denial of service) that hackers have been using, targeting the websites and electronic information portals in Vietnam. He has warned that the Communist Party’s and the State’s agencies should take necessary measures to protect their confidential documents.
They has suggested that the Ministry of Information and Communication needs to find out the measures to prevent from the leaking of confidential documents. Especially, the thinks that USB’s should be banned at the agencies which regularly work with sensitive documents.
Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team – VNCERT, has said that the Ministry of Information and Communication (MOIC) and VNCERT are considering finding out best solutions to the danger.
“MOIC is implementing the project on building up the Technical Center for National Security Network, which aims to set up a network security supervision system which allows to supervise the information flowing illegally to some doubtful addresses. Also, modern technologies will be applied at some important agencies in order to discover and prevent abnormal information flows,” Khanh said.
Meanwhile, the Government has assigned some relevant ministries and branches to conduct surveys and make reports about the network security of online newspapers.
Big worries about the security of online newspapers have been raised after VietNamNet, a leading online newspaper in Vietnam, was continuously hacked in the first months of 2011.
In the Notice No 167, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan requested MOIC, the Ministry of Public Security and network security units to make report about the security level and the risks for online newspapers which belong to Communist Party’s agencies, the National Assembly, the Government and ministries.
MOIC has been asked to guide relevant ministries to take feasible measures immediately in order to heighten the safety of online newspapers, or fix problems.
The report must be submitted to the Prime Minister prior to August 30, 2011, according to Buu Dien.
In related news, according to BKAV, a network security firm, 3690 new types of computer virus appeared in Vietnam in June 2011.
The viruses have been infected by 6,955,000 computers. Especially, W32.Sality.PE has been spreading at the highest speed, with 481,000 computers infected.
BKAV has also said on Thoi bao Kinh te Vietnam that during that time, more than 450 websites of Vietnamese agencies and agencies were attacked by foreign hackers. These include 68 “gov.vn” domain names.
Hackers penetrated the systems and infiltrated hijack, changed the information on the systems, or installed viruses to steal data. This was considered the biggest attack campaign so far which aims to Vietnamese websites.
BKAV believes that all the attacks began from very simple loopholes of websites’ administrators, and that even unqualified hackers still could penetrate the systems through such holes.
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