Vietnam’s No.2 webhost restores services after security breach
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Tahir 31 July, 2008
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PA Vietnam, a Vietnam Government affiliate and the second largest hosting company in the country, saw over 10,000 websites being crippled after the provider’s .COM and .NET Top Level Domains (TLDs) were hijacked by attackers on Sunday, 27th of July. The crippled websites used the provider’s domain name servers (DNS) that were registered under the hijacked domains.
According to VNCERT, the country’s National Computer Emergency Response Team:
“It’s believed the hackers broke in through a hole in DNS to control the administration,”
-VNCERT Technical Branch Chief - Do Ngoc Duy Trac. Read the rest of this entry
