Vietnam is the world leader in the risk of infection

Vietnam is the world leader in the risk of being infected with malicious code and malware.

Vietnam has the highest rate of infected computers in the world

Workshop - National Exhibition on Security Security 2015 (Security World 2015) with the theme 'Strengthening Security and Information Security in the current risk environment ' took place on March 25, in Hanoi .

Speaking at the Algae Association, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong affirmed that there are more than 30 million people regularly using the Internet. The Government of Vietnam is always interested in ensuring information security. Currently, the Ministry of Information and Communication is leading the drafting of the Law on Information Safety, submitting to the National Assembly Committee for progress, expected to be approved in the 10th session.

Security vendor Kaspersky and Symantec's report ranked Vietnam third after Russia and India in terms of the number of malicious mobile users in the world . In 2014, there were 1.4 million attacks of users using malicious code on Android, a 4-fold increase compared to 2013. Vietnam also ranked 6th in the world in terms of the number of domestic IP addresses used for total network networks Ghost attacks another country. Regarding the distribution of spam messages, Vietnam ranked 7th in the world.

The risk of information insecurity is at an alarming rate when nearly 50% of users are at risk of malicious code when using the Internet on computers, ranking 4th in the world . Vietnam is also the world leader in the risk of local malicious code, malicious software (via USB, memory card .) with nearly 70% of computer users at high risk of infection.

Foreign hackers often take advantage of network security weaknesses of the Vietnamese portal system, electronic information site to attack, infiltrate, hijack, edit content. Although there have been many warnings about the situation of network security, but the defense, anti-attack and intrusion have not been effective.

Vietnam is the world leader in the risk of infection.(Illustration)

Mr. Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Center (VNCERT) said that in the first quarter of 2015, more than 1.2 million (IP) malicious codes were discovered . Top 5 techniques most used by hackers are: Service scan attack, Brute force password attack via SSH protocol, attack unauthorized file loading on web service server, Attack FastCGI protocol of Microsoft 's IIS 7.5 Web server software, and botnet attacks use infectious malware software to flood the network bandwidth.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hong said that the issue of ensuring safety and information security in the network environment is becoming more urgent.Information security risks are increasing both in quantity and severity.

The report of the Vietnam Information Security Association also said that most organizations in Vietnam allow the use of personal devices such as mobile phones and tablets to access the network at work but there are 74% of these devices do not use any information security measures . IT leaders and experts need to find solutions to deal with information insecurity in the current environment.