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Vietnam – Japan strengthen cooperation on information security
On September 24, 2019, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held the first meeting of Joint Coordination Committee to…
Vietnam among top targets for phishing in Southeast Asia
Vietnam is among the top three target countries for phishing websites in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, according to the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.…
Ministry warns of security breaches
The Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications has warned of two security breaches that exist in Remote Desktop Services of the Windows operation…
The VN Information Security Department has issued a warning of new vulnerabilities found in remote desktop services, which may affect 22,000 computers using Windows operating system in Vietnam.
The two new critical vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft, named CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182, allow an attacker to remotely install malware into the target system and take control of it.…
Vietnam jumps 50 places on global cybersecurity index rankings
Vietnam ranked 50th on the Global Cybersecurity Index (CGI) rankings in 2018, up 50 places from a year earlier, according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union…
Vietnam suffers over 6,200 cyber attacks in seven months
Vietnam recorded 6,219 cyber attacks since the start of 2019, a year-on-year surge of 104 percent, said the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT). Of the number, there…
Efforts to promote e-Government building
Over recent years, the Party and Government have always paid great attention to developing the application of information and technology (IT) and building an e-Government in the State…
Building e-government must also ensures people’s privacy
On July 26th, more than 400 international and local experts and enterprises gathered at a national conference on electronic government in Hue. They analysed challenges and offered solutions…
PM urges for acceleration of e-government development
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a teleconference on e-government development on July 23, in which he required to not allow financial difficulties and obstacles in connecting and…
Vietnam suffers the most offline cyber attacks in all Southeast Asia
Vietnam suffered the most offline cyber attacks in all of Southeast Asia and the 30th most in the world in the second quarter of this year. Cybersecurity…
Vietnam organizes cyber security training for Cuba
From July 9 to 13, 2019, in Havana (Cuba), the advanced cyber security training course was organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications in coordination with the…
e-Cabinet represents important pilot step towards e-Government
PM Phuc made the point at the launching ceremony of the e-Cabinet system which targets to shift from paper-based working modal to electric, modern, transparent, and efficient working…