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3. International Cooperation
TWNCERT is always glad to join in the international security organizations and share information with security communities. In 2008, TWNCERT continued to
participate in the following security communities and attended many important conferences:
1 APCERT 2008 2 FIRST 2008
3 APEC-TEL 2008 4 AVAR 2008
5 Virus Bulletin 2008 6 AFACT 2008
7 DeepSec IDSC 2008 8 ISACA International Conference and Annual Meeting of the Membership 2008
9 USENIX 2008 10 Cyber Defense Info-Security Asia 2008
In addition, TWNCERT receives the reporting of computer incidents about Taiwan and coordinate related law enforcement agencies to handle these incidents. We
want to strengthen the ability of information security defense and reduce the damage cause by these incidents. In 2008, TWNCERT handle about 280 incidents
reporting from about 15 international security communities.
4. Presentations and Publications
TWNCERT is continuing to do research on security areas and publish the research results in the international security conferences in order to share our experiences
with communities. For the international cooperation, TWNCERT will continue to share information with
global security communities in the future. URL:
http:www.twncert.org.twenmain.php Email:
twncerttwncert.org.tw Phone: +886-2739-1000 ext 661
Fax: +886-2733-1655
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13. VNCERT Activity Report 2008
Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team – Vietnam
1. About VNCERT
VNCERT is an agency under Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, established by decision of Vietnams Prime minister in December, 2005.
With functions of coordinating national computer incident response activities, watching and warning computer network security problems, building and
co-ordinating to build computer network security technical standard, promoting to build CERTs in the organizations, enterprises, agencies in Vietnam, VNCERT is
responsible for state management of information security IS area and is the point of contact of Vietnam with the oversea CERTs in this area.
VNCERT has four specialized divisions: division of operation, division of system technique, division of training consultancy and division of research and
development. VNCERT also has two branches, one in Hochiminh city and another in Danang city.
Current number of employees in VNCERT is about forty.
2. Activities Operations
In 2008, the total number of serious incidents reported to VNCERT is 95, which has 48 incidents increase compared to 2007. VNCERT worked very actively and
directly in handling 73 incidents and took part in 22 incident handling consultancy situations.
In 2008 there are 02 serious incidents in Viet Nam: 01 attack to DNS and 01 attack to PAvietnam. No incident occurred on government agency systems. VNCERT
handled those. The reports of 2008 are about website defacement and phishing. Almost phishing
incidents related to finance, commonly forging banks to steal banks account, and they are reported from outside Vietnam.
In 2008 the internal and external coordinating information Chanels have been set up for 2 ministries, 03 government websites, and 7 Internet service providers.
VNCERT: informed hundreds of websites and electronic newspapers of VNCERTs
point of contact to receive emergency response; helped to secure all online important government events;
91 coordinated with the Vietnam Information Security Association VNISA
carried out a survey of IS situation in enterprises and state agencies in all over Vietnam;
early detected and warned the IS threats on the large scale, supported to handle the IS vulnerabilities and preventing incident on the national scale.
3. Events organized co-organized 3.1. Training Drills
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