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Vietnam student hacker case: minister says no one above law

Vietnam student hacker case: minister says no one above law

With a Vietnamese school student who hacked into a government website still awaiting punishment, a government minister said the law had to take its course.

Bui Minh Tri, a 12th grade student in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long, detected a security flaw in the education ministry and broke into it last month, replacing Education Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan’s image with his own. Tri was nabbed later by the police. But in a letter recently to the minister he said his sole intention was to warn the website’s administrators about the security flaw. He also expressed remorse and apologized. Quach Tuan Ngoc, head of the ministry’s Informatics Center, said the website had not been harmed. Ngoc also suggested leniency for the schoolboy. However, asked by Thanh Nien correspondents Wednesday, Minister Nhan said he had yet to decide what action should be taken but said pointedly “no one is above the law”.

Internet access down as Taiwan quake severs cables

Internet access down as Taiwan quake severs cables

A man walks past a monitor of an internet service point in Hong Kong Vietnam Wednesday morning was largely cut off from the World Wide Web after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale shook Taiwan a day earlier, damaging undersea cables.

Vietnamese Internet users said access had slowed dramatically and many websites, including Yahoo and MSN, were inaccessible. But Google and most Vietnamese websites remained accessible. Telecom companies VDC, FPT, and Viettel said the quake had severed at least six international telecom cables beneath the sea south of Taiwan. They were in touch with counterparts overseas to sort out the problem, but could not say when the situation would be resolved. Asia-wide disruption Disruption in service was reportedly Asia-wide, as other broadband service providers complained of similar problems. Taiwan's largest telephone company, Chunghwa Telecom Co, said the damage had disrupted 98 percent of Taiwan's communications with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong. Repairs to rectify the problem could take two to three weeks, said Vice-General Manager Lin Jen-hung. Telecommunications companies in Hong Kong, Japan and China were also hit. China's biggest telecoms provider, China Telecommunications Group, reported damage of communications cables to the US and Europe. "Internet connections have been seriously affected and so have phone links and dedicated business lines," said a representative from the telecom group. In South Korea, broadband provider KT Corp said six submarine cables had been disrupted, cutting services to a host of customers, including financial institutions. Foreign exchange trading reportedly suffered as well.