Do Viet Thang, Deputy Director of the IT and cyber security monitoring centre under the Government’s Information Security Commission, speaks at the workshop in Hanoi on August 14 (Photo: ictvietnam.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – The latest cyber security solutionswere shared at a workshop in Hanoi on August 14, amid the growing number ofcyber attacks targeting Vietnam recently.
According to the Government’s InformationSecurity Commission, Vietnam was among the 10 countries suffering from the mostDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2019. It wasalso one of the 10 countries with the biggest number of botnets in the firstquarter, while ranking fourth in the world in terms of the sources of junkmails and phishing attacks via e-mails.
In the first six months, hackers mainly targetedloopholes of apps (over 224,000 attacks) and access control systems (over176,000 attacks).
Do Viet Thang, Deputy Director of the IT andcyber security monitoring centre under the Government’s commission, said one ofthe main causes of the high cyber insecurity in Vietnam is that patches forinformation security loopholes are not updated to avoid virus attacks.
Additionally, that users use tools to crackcopyrighted softwares and continually update these tools has also led to thesurge of serious cyber attacks, he noted.
At the workshop, many speakers gave warningsabout forms of attacks and presented new information security technologies.
The annual event, named the Netpoleon SolutionsDay 2019, was held by Netpoleon Solutions Vietnam, attracting nearly 300participants.
On its sidelines, a CTF contest took place tohelp improve public awareness of information security. A seminar was alsoorganised to share the Japanese and Singaporean governments’ experience in informationsecurity enhancement and discuss security challenges and solutions for Vietnam.-VNA
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