HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam has dismissed what it called "groundless" implications it used malicious computer programs to hack Web sites and spy on political opponents.
Google Inc. said in a post last week on its security blog that software known as "malware" was used to snoop on opponents of a controversial bauxite mine planned for Vietnam's Central Highlands. It said the cyberattacks had targeted "potentially tens of thousands of people." Google didn't say whom it suspects of the attack.
The perpetrators "may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," George Kurtz, chief technology officer of online security firm McAfee, wrote in a separate security blog.
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