Vietnam cyber security - look back a year

Implementing the function of warning and supporting their community, VSEC annually presents its summaries and forecasts about the network security situation in Vietnam.

10 Vietnamese cyber security events 2005

1 / The group claiming "Vietnam Hackers Alliance" contributes to clarify the fraud in TTVN competition

Start with a website attack on the website www.tintucvietnam.com . On the night of November 28, 2004, hackers sparked a heated debate that had never been seen in Vietnamese IT circles (which lasted until January 2005). As a result, the iCMS group was withdrawn the first prize, the Jury of the TTVN contest received a part of the responsibility in this case. Hackers have shown their active role in the process of bringing fraud to light.

2 / Vietnam hackers change

The vast majority of Vietnamese hacker organizations announced to step into the light and turn to security research. This is a good sign for Vietnam's Internet in the context of world hackers constantly attacking and destroying domestic systems. Goodwill hackers will contribute positively to the protection of the health and solidity of Vietnam's Internet.

3 / Spammer and spyware "Made in Vietnam" appear

Vietnamese Internet users start to be disturbed by promotional emails and popup spyware of Vietnamese origin that are very annoying. This is a type of attack that countries around the world are trying to eliminate. This is also a point that Vietnamese Internet management authorities should pay attention to and control early, according to the experience of other countries in the world, so that this type of crime will become more and more complicated.

4 / Vietnam police force entered to control cybercrime

The police force investigated and arrested a number of people who had bad behavior on the network. Find out some Vietnamese youth buy "pagoda" goods with stolen accounts of foreigners. Especially the arrest of a group of fake credit card holders to withdraw money at ATMs of Vietnamese banks, this is a necessary task to deter cyber criminals from contributing to the protection of e-commerce. young of Vietnam.

5 / Foreign hackers attack a series of websites with poor security of Vietnam

The number of 60% of government websites controlled by foreign hackers of VSEC makes startling authorities. Many people make different comments about this statistic, but one thing is all conclusive: The bad security status of many websites in Vietnam today is real .

6 / Security profession becomes expensive

More than ever, Vietnam's large and critical systems desperately need highly qualified personnel in the field of network security to be able to operate safely on the internet. Heavy responsibilities, which require a high level of responsibility and a sense of responsibility, a security profession is gradually favored by young IT researchers. Many domestic and foreign cybersecurity training centers are established in Vietnam.

7 / Security market for information systems in Vietnam starts to start

A series of foreign companies landed in Vietnam's security market with many products and types of services. Most of the big names in the world can be found in Vietnam: Bitdefender, McAfee, RSA, Checkpoint, Cisco, Symantec, Juniper, Astaro .

The security market in Vietnam has really kicked off, the need for standards for appraisal and management of these products is set with management levels. It is known that the Government Committee for Essentials is preparing to submit a project to develop a standard system and they only address Vietnam's information security.

8 / MobiFone mobile network is attacked

Despite warnings from VSEC, MobiFone mobile network representative still claims to have the best network security system in Vietnam and the system is still safe. Immediately after that the source code and data of MobiFone customers were released to the Internet, an electronic newspaper conducted a test to change the content of the website www.mobifone.com.vn successfully.

9 / Denial of service attacks become dangerous and widespread - causing great harm

The most dangerous and difficult form of attack on Internet-DDOS became popular in Vietnam in the context of world hackers 'death' of this type of attack. With some 'improvements' using a browser that supports Flash as an attack tool, making every web user become zoombie to attack the predetermined hacker system, Flash-DDOS attack becomes impossible technical control

Technical experts identified the need for a national coordination and coordination center to overcome this type of dangerous attack.

10 / The birth of the National Computer Incident Response Center

Prime Minister Phan Van Khai signed Decision 339 on the establishment of Vietnam's National Computer Emergency Response Center, or VNCERT (Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team).

This is a memorable milestone of the Vietnamese security community. For the first time, Vietnam has a national-level center dedicated to troubleshooting, coordinating national security issues and being able to cooperate internationally in this area.

5 Forecast of the trend and situation of Vietnam cybersecurity in 2006

1 / Attack denial of service, spam, spyware will continue to rage in Vietnam in the context of poor user consciousness.

2 / The market for information, training and information security services in Vietnam will be the hottest in the past years with the participation of many companies and organizations.

3 / A series of transforming activities of Vietnamese goodwill hackers will promote positive effects, contributing to suppress cybercrime and stabilize Vietnam security situation.

4 / Internet management problem will become more urgent than ever. Using the preeminent characteristics of the internet while controlling its downside will be the biggest problem for the authorities in 2006.

5 / On March 1, 2006, the E-Commerce Law will take effect, as the foundation for e-commerce development in Vietnam. Newly established e-commerce systems will have to suffer serious consequences if not consciously preparing issues related to information security.

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