Last Year Saw 60 Million Malware-infected PCs in Vietnam

Approximately 160,000 computers a day in Vietnam got slammed with malware last year, with most PCs being infected at an alarming rate by the Conficker virus, according to the Vietnam Informatics Department.

According to Vietnamese news source VietNamNet, the Ministry of Public Security said Vietnam now ranks among the 10 nations that have the highest risk of information vulnerability. Additionally, the domain .vn also ranks third on the list of…

Vietnam Bolsters Cyber Defenses after Hacker Attacks

In the wake of several hacker attacks against a major government-run news website, the Vietnamese government has unveiled a 10-year plan to boost cybersecurity, according to Asia Pacific Future Gov.

The plan, which will run from 2010 to 2020, has a budget of $42 million to strengthen the country’s cyber infrastructure and implement a legal framework to tackle Internet-based crime.

“ has drafted information security regulations,…

Self-proclaimed Algerian Hackers Paralyze Vietnamese Website

A popular Vietnamese website that often publishes controversial news and criticizes China was hacked yesterday, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

VietnamNet, an online newspaper, was attacked 3 a.m. Monday. Visitors to the site encountered several messages saying “Server is too busy” and “Hacked By Team Mosta Algerian Hacker.”

“I have no answer for you why VietnamNet was hacked,” Nguyen Anh Tuan, editor in chief of the website, told dpa. “We need…

World’s Riskiest Web Domains

The world’s busiest web domain, .com, is now the most dangerous, according to McAfee’s fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today.

While .com was found to be the riskiest top-level domain, the most dangerous country domain is Vietnam (.vn). Japan’s .jp ranks as the safest country domain for the second…

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…