Vietnam Accused of Cyber Attacking Bloggers

The Vietnamese government is being accused of conducting cyber attacks to bring down the websites of independent bloggers, as well as arresting some of the dissidents.

Human Rights Watch recently listed a series of arrests and police harassment of web dissidents since mid-April. The organization alleges the Vietnamese government masterminded a series of malware and distributed denial-of-service attacks on alternative political websites over the past year.

HRW said police beat one…