This was shared by Mr. Tran Quang Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications), at the regular March press conference of the Ministry of Information and Communications on March 6, in response to questions from the press related to the Facebook "incident".
Mr. Tran Quang Hung, Deputy Director of Information Security Department
According to Mr. Tran Quang Hung, the Facebook "incident" on the evening of March 5 that left millions of users unable to log into the platform shows that users in Vietnam are quite dependent on Facebook and social networks.
Immediately after the incident, users switched to other social networks such as Zalo, Viber, Telegram... Mr. Hung acknowledged that Facebook's "downfall" was a "good sign", not because Vietnam already had a social network to share information, but more importantly, after the incident, users of this cross-border social network would be "startled" and worried about whether they were victims of hackers or not. Most users have security authentication measures, change passwords,
Warning of the risk of scams taking advantage of Facebook's 'incident'
From another perspective, the Deputy Director of the Information Security Department said that Facebook's "downtime" also brought "positive value" to Vietnamese users. Currently, many users are dependent on social networking platforms, and if they do not have or use account security measures, most of them will lose their accounts.
"When people have basic knowledge and measures to protect their accounts even when they are attacked, they will not be so worried or confused," said Mr. Hung.
According to the National Cyber Security Monitoring Center (Ministry of Information and Communications), when detecting unusual signs on Facebook, users should change their password and use a strong password, including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.
Next, report the incident via social media or other means of communication such as phone, email. Inform your friends and family members on your friends list about the situation and warn them not to trust or respond to scam messages.
In addition, always stay vigilant and follow basic security measures such as: enable 2-factor authentication; do not share personal information and passwords with anyone; do not click on unknown links or suspicious messages; update security software regularly to avoid security vulnerabilities.
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Meanwhile, cyber security experts also warn about "services" that offer to recover Facebook accounts and passwords with the aim of defrauding and stealing accounts and passwords.
Earlier, on the evening of March 5, millions of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger users around the world were suddenly "kicked" out of these platforms and unable to log back in. Many users reported that Facebook automatically logged them out without the option to log back in, and this problem occurred on both the Facebook app and website. The cause of the outage has not been confirmed.
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