Vietnam-China cyberwar breaking out?

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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/science-it/102081/vietnam-china-cyberwar-breaking-out-.html

vietnamnet.vn
12/05/2014

Securitydaily on May 9 quoted techz.vn as reporting that tens of websites 
of Chinese organizations and enterprises had been attacked by hackers from 
Vietnam. The main attack mode was DDoS (distributed denial of service).

Some websites of individuals and organizations with the domain name “.tw” 
(Taiwan) have also been victims of the attacks.

Experts have expressed their worries that the attacks may trigger a 
cyberwar between Vietnam and China. If this occurs, Vietnamese internet 
users would suffer heavily.

On Sunday, Hoang Cuong of the Information Technology Center, an arm of the 
Military Technical Academy, published an article in Securitydaily. It 
named 102 Vietnamese websites which have been attacked by Chinese hackers. 
Another source said the number of hacked Vietnamese websites could be even 
higher.

The author affirmed that most of the websites were “dead” – that is, they 
had been hijacked.

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