[Hot, freaking Hot]Google Links Web Attacks to Vietnam Mine Dispute

cafepho · 31/3/10

Trước hết xin lỗi Mod vì post bài này bằng tiếng Anh, nhưng do đây là tin khá nóng và mới nên chưa có bản dịch tiếng Việt
Khi nào có bản dịch Tiếng Việt hay dc đăng bởi 1 báo khác của VN thì xin lock nó cũng dc

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/world/asia/01vietnam.html?ref=business

HONG KONG — Google, fresh off a dispute with China over censorship and intrusion from hackers, says it has identified cyber-attacks aimed at silencing critics of a controversial, Chinese-backed bauxite mining project in Vietnam.

In attacks it described as similar to but less sophisticated than those at the core of its spat with China, Google said malicious software was used to infect “potentially tens of thousands of computers,” broadly targeting Vietnamese speaking computer users around the world.

Infected machines had been used to spy on their owners and to attack blogs containing messages of political dissent, wrote Neel Mehta of the company’s security team in a post late Tuesday on Google’s online security blog.

McAfee, the computer security firm, said in a separate blog posting that it believed “the perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”

It added: “This incident underscores that not every attack is motivated by data theft or money. This is likely the latest example of hacktivism and politically motivated cyberattacks, which are on the rise.”

Google said that while the malware itself was not especially sophisticated, “it has nonetheless been used for damaging purposes.”

“Specifically, these attacks have tried to squelch opposition to bauxite mining efforts in Vietnam, an important and emotionally charged issue in the country.”

Bauxite is a key mineral in making aluminum and one of Vietnam’s most valuable natural resources. Plans by the Vietnamese government to exploit bauxite in the Central Highlands region, in partnership with a Chinese state-run company, have generated much local criticism, including from a well-known war hero, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap.

General Giap and other opponents say the project will be ruinous to the environment, displace ethnic minority populations and threaten the south-east Asian country’s national security with an influx of Chinese workers and economic leverage.

The role of China in the bauxite project also has stirred up anger in a nation that still fears its bigger neighbor: Vietnam was a tributary state of China for 1,000 years and was invaded by China in 1979, and the two countries continue to joust for sovereignty in the South China Sea.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Google Inc. says it has found another case of cyberattacks being used to suppress political dissent, this time to silence opponents of a Vietnamese mining project that involves a state-run Chinese company.

Computer security firm McAfee said the perpetrators may be linked to Vietnam's Communist government.

Last week, Google shut down its search operations in China, Vietnam's northern neighbor, after complaints of cyberattacks and censorship there. Google now redirects search queries from China's mainland to the freer Chinese territory of Hong Kong.

Google said the attacks in Vietnam were less sophisticated but were also intended to suppress opposing views.

It said it was drawing attention to them because they underscored the need for the international community ''to take cybersecurity seriously to help keep free opinion flowing.''

The attacks targeted ''potentially tens of thousands'' of people who downloaded software that allows Windows computers to use the Vietnamese language, a posting on Google's online security blog said Tuesday.

It said the ''malware'' infected the computers, spying on the users and attacking Internet sites containing messages of political dissent.

''Specifically, these attacks have tried to squelch opposition to bauxite mining efforts in Vietnam, an important and emotionally charged issue in the country,'' Google engineer Neel Mehta wrote in the posting.

The mining project involving a subsidiary of Chinese state-run aluminum company Chinalco is planned for Vietnam's Central Highlands and has attracted strong opposition -- including from Vietnam's most famous military hero -- because of fears it would cause major environmental problems and lead to Chinese workers flooding into the strategically sensitive region.

McAfee, which has investigated the malware, also discussed the attacks in a blog posting Tuesday.

''We believe that the perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,'' wrote George Kurtz, McAfee's chief technology officer.

Vietnamese officials could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

Like China, Vietnam tightly controls the flow of information and has said it reserves the right to take ''appropriate action'' against Web sites it deems harmful to national security.

Last fall, the government detained several bloggers who criticized the bauxite mine, and in December, a Web site called bauxitevietnam.info, which had drawn millions of visitors opposed to the mine, was hacked.

The malware apparently began circulating at about that time, according the McAfee blog. It said someone hacked into a Web site run by the California-based Vietnamese Professionals Society and replaced a keyboard program that can be downloaded from that site with a malicious program.

Among the bauxite mine's opponents is the legendary 98-year-old Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who led Vietnamese forces in victories against French and U.S. troops. Giap's photograph is prominently featured on the bauxite Web site.

Suspicion of China runs deep in Vietnam, which has a long history of conflict with its northern neighbor.

The two countries fought a bloody border war in 1979 and have ongoing disputes about two archipelagoes in the South China Sea, the Spratlys and the Paracels.

While the Vietnam cyberattacks did not target Google, the company says its dispute with Beijing was triggered by a hacking attack that emanated from China and attempts to snoop on dissidents' e-mail.
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Computer security firm McAfee said the perpetrators may be linked to Vietnam's Communist government.
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The attacks targeted ''potentially tens of thousands'' of people who downloaded software that allows Windows computers to use the Vietnamese language, a posting on Google's online security blog said Tuesday.
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''Specifically, these attacks have tried to squelch opposition to bauxite mining efforts in Vietnam, an important and emotionally charged issue in the country,'' Google engineer Neel Mehta wrote in the posting.
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While the Vietnam cyberattacks did not target Google, the company says its dispute with Beijing was triggered by a hacking attack that emanated from China and attempts to snoop on dissidents' e-mail.
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Game Over Dude · 31/3/10

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