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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Google: Online attacks aimed at Vietnam critics By BEN STOCKING,Associated Press Writer - Thursday, April 1 Send IM Story Print HANOI, Vietnam – 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. ___ On the Net: Google Online Security Blog: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/03/chilling-effects-of-malware.html McAfee Security Insights Blog: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/vietnamese-speakers-targeted-in-cyberattack/ Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Rural tradition eyed after China dead babies find AP - 1 hour 23 minutes ago Afghan president denied more control of vote body AP - 1 hour 26 minutes ago Prison for bosses of China disco after deadly fire AP - 1 hour 35 minutes ago US to give $5M for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trial AP - 1 hour 38 minutes ago Police say new fighting in Indian Kashmir kills 9 AP - 1 hour 46 minutes ago News Search Top Stories US private sector sheds 23,000 jobs in March Eurozone inflation sharply up to 1.5% German jobless rate drops unexpectedly EU subsidies have encouraged overfishing: study What, or who, killed the last mammoths? 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