2009: More than 1,000 Vietnamese websites have been hacked

The number of hacked websites in Vietnam has more than doubled in 2009, including many websites of government agencies, according to Bkis.

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According to Bkis statistics on the network security situation in Vietnam, there were 1,037 Vietnamese websites that were attacked by hackers in 2009, more than doubling compared to 2008 (461 websites) and three times higher than in 2007. (342 websites). In 2009, more than 47,000 new computer virus variants appeared in Vietnam, an increase of about 30% compared to 2008.

Loose security is the cause of increasing hacked websites in Vietnam (Artwork: ICTNews)

The most vulnerable websites are Internet service providers, financial companies, banks and government agencies. Particularly in November 2 and December 2009, BKIS recorded 18 websites of ministries and departments that were attacked by hackers.

In addition to lax security reasons, according to Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, Bkis General Director, many website development companies do not understand much about security, while most units when renting a website have not set the post. security.

With the website of state agencies, Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang said that it is necessary to have mandatory regulations on security inspection, with specialists specialized in managing the private network and taking care of security.

The weakness of websites in Vietnam has been evident in the two most popular hacks of 2009: the network of GhostNet spy computers and Conficker worm.

The GhostNet network was discovered in March 2009 and attacked 1,300 computers in 103 countries around the world, in which Vietnam ranked second in terms of the number of computers that were attacked by the network after Taiwan. Vietnam also ranked 4th in the list of countries with the most heavily infected Conficker, with about 73,000 infected computers.

(Source: Bkis)

The survey of Anchor Intelligence security firm announced in July 2009 also affirmed that Vietnam is the leading country in terms of online click fraud rates. Viet Nam's click-through rate of fraud is 48%, nearly twice as high as Canada's second (27.7%) and the US (25.6%).

According to a survey by Anchor Intelligence, Vietnam's high rate of online fraud is mainly " online population " that increases rapidly while the security environment is lax, using pirated security software or not updating regularly. That makes computers in Vietnam easy to take advantage of international criminal organizations, turning them into advertising ' machines '.