9 posts and columns on Vietnam

Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever

in News on August 3, 2011 at 7:15 am PT

The biggest network intrusion ever has been carried out since 2006 against organizations in 72 countries. You get three guesses who the attacker is thought to be, but you probably only need one. Need a hint? It wasn’t LulzSec.
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Intel Cuts Ribbon on Billion-Dollar Plant in Vietnam

in News on October 29, 2010 at 10:20 am PT

In Ho Chi Minh City today, Intel officially opened what CEO Paul Otellini called “the largest and most sophisticated assembly test facility in Intel’s global manufacturing network.” The $1 billion plant began cranking up in June, making chipsets for mobile devices. Just Tuesday, Otellini presided over the opening of another big Asian investment–a $2.5 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dalian, China. In a pre-emptive defense against criticism for exporting jobs, the chip giant said last week it planned to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its U.S. facilities.

In Vietnam, State "Friends" You

in News on October 5, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

The Internet poses a challenge for authoritarian regimes around the world. But Vietnam’s leaders think they have figured out a new way to tame it–by launching their own, Communist-friendly answer to popular social-networking sites like Facebook.

It’s a Botnet Party Vietnam, Redux

in News on April 6, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has a message for the thousands of Vietnamese citizens reportedly targeted by politically motivated cyberattacks: There were no attacks.

Bing on the iPad?

in News on March 31, 2010 at 10:00 am PT

It’s a Botnet Party Vietnam

in News on March 31, 2010 at 8:20 am PT

East Asia obviously isn’t taking Google’s principled stand in China very seriously–not that you’d expect it to. Politically motivated cyberattacks in the region continue. The latest to be identified: A botnet intended to silence widespread opposition to a bauxite mining operation in Vietnam run by China’s state-owned mining group, Chinalco.

Web Censoring Widens Across Southeast Asia

in News on September 14, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

Attempts to censor the Internet are spreading to Southeast Asia as governments turn to coercion and intimidation to rein in online criticism. Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam lack the kind of technology and financial resources that China and some other large countries use to police the Internet.

HP Printers: Big in Iran?

in News on December 30, 2008 at 2:27 pm PT

There’s lots of talk in the tech industry these days about capitalizing on growth in “emerging markets,” countries like China, Vietnam and Brazil where people are rapidly buying computers and printers. A story in Monday’s Boston Globe says Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking that strategy one step further: Its printers, writes Farah Stockman, “have become a top seller” in Iran–a country whose economy the U.S. government wants to prevent from emerging.