VinFuture 2023 honors 4 breakthrough inventions
On the evening of December 20, the VinFuture Prize 2023 award ceremony took place in Hanoi. This is one of the world's most valuable awards in the field of science and technology.
The award system consists of 4 categories, of which the Main Prize worth 3 million USD is one of the world's largest prizes in the field of science and technology. In addition, there are 3 Special Prizes, each worth 500,000 USD.
The special prize for scientists from developing countries went to Professor Gurdev Singh Khush (Indian-American) and Professor Vo Tong Xuan (Vietnamese) for their important contributions in inventing and popularizing many high-yield, disease-resistant rice varieties, contributing to ensuring global food security.
The special prize for scientists researching new fields went to Professor Daniel Joshua Drucker, Professor Joel Francis Habener, Professor Jens Juul Holst and Professor Svetlana Mojsov for their research exploring the role of Glucagon-like Peptide 1 (GLP-1), the basis for treatments for diabetes and obesity and helping to promote new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
The special prize for female scientists went to Professor Susan Solomon for her discovery of the mechanism of ozone depletion in Antarctica, contributing to the Montreal Protocol, an effort to help reduce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
The main VinFuture Prize worth 3 million USD belongs to 4 scientists: Professor Martin Andrew Green, Professor Stanley Whittingham, Professor Rachid Yazami and Professor Akira Yoshino for their breakthrough invention creating a sustainable platform for green energy through production with solar cells and storage with Lithium-ion batteries.
Congratulating the scientists who have just been honored, President Vo Van Thuong believes that each work named at the VinFuture Prize will be a hope for the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of people around the world.
Phishing attacks in 2023 will increase dramatically
According to data from the technical systems of the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications), in the first 11 months of this year, this agency detected, warned and provided instructions on how to handle 11,428 cyber attacks that caused incidents to information systems in Vietnam, an increase of 1.9% over the same period last year.
Notably, of the more than 11,428 cyber attacks on information systems in Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year, there were 10,283 phishing attacks, accounting for nearly 90%. Meanwhile, the number of malware and deface attacks was 884 and 451 respectively.
Meanwhile, statistics on the number of cyber attacks on information systems in Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2022, released by the Department of Information Security, show that of the 11,213 cyber attacks causing incidents on information systems in Vietnam, there were 3,930 Phishing attacks, 1,524 Deface attacks and 5,759 Malware attacks.
Thus, compared to the same period last year, this year the number of phishing attacks has increased sharply.
It is predicted that phishing attacks will continue to increase in the coming time. Experts also recommend that agencies, organizations and businesses pay attention to prevent becoming victims of cybercrime groups.
Digitalization and simulation software won the first prize of 'Vietnamese Talent' 2023
On the evening of December 20, the 2023 "Vietnamese Talents" Award Ceremony took place at the Hanoi Opera House.
With the theme “Honoring talent, inspiring creativity”, this year’s “Vietnamese Talent” award aims to discover, honor and encourage groups and individuals whose scientific and technological products contribute to the country’s development.
According to the Organizing Committee, from 156 works participating in the competition, through the preliminary round, 19 products were selected to continue competing in the Final round, including 11 promising digital technology products and 8 successful digital technology products.
As a result, participating in the award system for successful digital technology products, the product "DKS - SINOVA Digitalization and Simulation Software" of DKS Automation Electronic Technology Development Investment Company Limited is the only product to be awarded the First Prize of "Vietnam Talent" 2023 in the field of digital technology.
This product helps students experience practice like on real equipment but is safer and can be performed many times, with many skills, helping to reduce investment costs and creating space for students to be creative and solve real problems.
At the award ceremony, with the Digital Technology award, the Organizing Committee also awarded 2 Second prizes, 3 Third prizes and 3 secondary prizes for other outstanding technology products.
In addition to the Digital Technology award system, this year's "Vietnamese Talent" award was also presented to authors and groups of authors in 4 other fields, specifically: 3 works in the field of Medicine - Pharmacy; 2 works in the field of Agriculture - Environment; 1 work in the field of Science - Technology; and 5 works in the field of Encouragement of Learning - Self-study to become talented.
23 ministries and provinces let websites be exploited to install malicious content
In the technical report on the information security situation in November 2023, the National Cyber Security Monitoring Center - NCSC under the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications) stated that 14 provinces, cities and 9 ministries and branches still have websites of units being exploited, uploading a large number of files with malicious content.
With 9 ministries and branches, there are 22 websites with the domain name .gov.vn that have inappropriate advertising content inserted; and with 14 provinces and cities, the number of government agency websites that have been exploited to insert harmful content and inappropriate advertising is 34 pages.
NCSC has sent direct warning letters to many ministries and provinces requesting inspection, review and handling.
The number of government agency websites with inappropriate advertising content, warned by the Information Security Department in August, September and October, was 38, 67 and 71 pages respectively.
The situation of many government agency websites being exploited to install, post, redirect or link to inappropriate advertising content such as card games, gambling, etc. is not a recent occurrence, but has been happening for years.
The Ministry of Information and Communications has repeatedly issued widespread warnings, requesting ministries, branches and localities to review inappropriate content inserted into the websites of state agencies.
Digital data in government agencies has grown dramatically.
On December 20, the National Digital Transformation Agency (Ministry of Information and Communications) in collaboration with the Institute of Innovation and Digital Transformation and the Vietnam Digital Communications Association organized a conference to summarize the national year on digital data and Datafest 2023, in a combined in-person and online format.
With the theme "Creating and exploiting digital data to create new values", 2023 - "National Digital Data Year" has been determined to focus on developing open data; developing databases; developing and promoting the use of digital platforms used uniformly nationwide or within each locality; Improving data management capacity, data safety and security.
Important national databases that form the foundation for digital transformation such as population databases, business registration, insurance, electronic household registration, and civil servants have been basically completed, put into operation, connected, and shared data on a national scale, bringing measurable and perceptible values.
The rate of ministries and provinces that have identified database lists has reached 63%. The number of specialized databases established in ministries, sectors and localities has increased by 38.5% compared to 2022, from 1,280 to 2,077 databases. The announcement of open data plans and lists has increased sharply from 9% to 50%.
Many localities such as Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Thua Thien Hue... have begun to build and put into operation shared data warehouses, providing open data to serve the processing of administrative procedures in a people-centered direction.
Connecting and sharing data on a national scale has had clear changes, creating specific practical values such as helping to save time and costs when processing administrative procedures and online public services.
According to statistics, on average, there are about 1.78 million transactions per day via the national data integration and sharing platform - NDXP; the total number of transactions via this platform since its launch is more than 1.65 billion transactions.
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