[iwar] [fc:Hackers.take.out.156.Web.sites.in.Vietnam]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-11-26 06:42:48

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Hackers take out 156 Web sites in Vietnam  
By David Legard, Industry Standard Australia, 11/23/2001
<a href="http://www.thestandard.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/5E9F0E36DFED298CCA256B0B00747A3E!OpenDocument&n=Section&c=Marketing+and+Media">http://www.thestandard.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/5E9F0E36DFED298CCA256B0B00747A3E!OpenDocument&n=Section&c=Marketing+and+Media>

Hackers calling themselves revengetheplanet on Monday attacked 156 Web
sites hosted by Vietnam's largest ISP (Internet service provider) and
monopoly Internet gateway provider, Vietnam Data Communications Co.
(VDC). 
The intrusions were monitored by a foreign Internet services company in
Vietnam which did not want to be publicly named as authorities have
accused it of collusion in this attack and an earlier attack in August
which erased 60 VDC-hosted Web sites.

The hackers, believed to be in based in the U.S., replaced the contents
of the mainly government-linked Web sites with abuse about the weak
level of Internet security maintained by VDC technicians. Many of the
sites were down for as long as 10 hours, as the hackers were able to
erase poorly secured backup content, according to the security company. 
Apart from a variety of VDC's own sites, the hackers hit VDC-hosted
sites belonging to government organizations such as the State Security
Commission, the Communist Party umbrella group Vietnam Fatherland Front,
the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Ministry of
Education and Training. The hackers said they left alone a single
VDC-hosted site called Cuu Tro Tre Em Tan Tat (Handicapped Children
Relief). 
Vietnam has five state-owned ISPs, of which VDC, a subsidiary of
telecommunication monopoly carrier Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications
Corp. (VNPT), is the largest. VDC also controls the country's Internet
gateways. All Web sites in the country must be hosted on
government-approved servers, and there are strict regulations defining
what content is acceptable. 
Vietnam's government has approved plans to create an "electronic
government" using the Internet, and has also said it wants to open up
the Internet services market to private companies. 
The government has said it encourages private Internet use and urges
businesses to use e-commerce. Currently, around 0.2 percent of Vietnam's
population have Internet subscriptions, and Web sites set up in Vietnam
number only a few hundred.

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