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…

Human Rights Activist Condemns Iran Cyber Crackdown

Last week, The New New Internet reported on the hacking attacks against Human Rights Activists in Iran by members of the Revolutionary Guards. Today, at a speaking engagement at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Ahmad Batebi, of Human Rights Activists in Iran, and Joe Stork, of Human Rights Watch, spoke out against the crackdown, which included cyber attacks against human rights websites and arrests of…