An Giang requests to block ads for betting and online gambling on electronic information sites

The People’s Committee of An Giang province has just requested departments, agencies, branches and mass organizations; People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities and state-owned enterprises have implemented solutions to prevent the posting of advertising content for betting, online gambling, and prostitution on websites/portals.

The People’s Committee of this province said that, according to the announcement of the Ministry of Public Security, through an online review, it was discovered that hundreds of electronic information pages under the management of state agencies (with the domain name .gov.vn) were hacked. insert thousands of links containing advertising content, along with links to betting, online gambling and prostitution websites.

Along with that, the subjects also used advertising tools of search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo… to promote and increase the prestige of illegal online gambling and betting websites and increasingly, complicated developments.

According to analysis, the above situation comes from a number of main reasons such as: Domain names belonging to state agencies are the top targets of hackers; The agency that manages the information pages does not control the content that users post such as comments, questions and answers, allowing anyone to post content and display it on the website. .

In addition, due to the existence of security holes on the website, it was attacked, exploited, and hijacked by hackers, thereby posting advertising content for betting, online gambling, prostitution. . In addition, administrators of some websites intentionally post advertising content for personal purposes.

An Giang Provincial People’s Committee commented that the situation of state agencies’ websites being inserted with links containing advertising content, accompanied by links to websites of betting, online gambling, prostitution, if not promptly prevented, can seriously affect the reputation of state agencies; At the same time, there is a potential risk of network insecurity, information security, increasing crime…

Therefore, to prevent the above situation in An Giang, Chairman of An Giang Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh directed agencies and units to strengthen network security, information safety, prevent advertising activities. report on football betting, prostitution, and online gambling in their respective areas and fields according to the functions and tasks of each department, department, branch, mass organization, local government at all levels.

Departments, branches, mass organizations and local authorities at all levels in An Giang are also required to review and list articles that advertise football betting, prostitution, and online gambling on the website. to promptly remove infringing content.

At the same time, strengthen measures to ensure information security and safety, proactively review and overcome existing weaknesses and security holes (if any). Develop regulations on administration and operation of the website, which clearly stipulates the inspection and censorship of user-posted content before allowing it to be displayed on the website; added the feature of storing the user’s IP address when uploading content to the website for verification upon request.

An Giang Provincial Police is assigned to be the standing agency to help the Provincial People’s Committee direct departments, agencies, mass organizations and localities to carry out the work of preventing, detecting and fighting betting and advertising activities. online gambling, prostitution on websites/portals; receive and process reports and denunciations of related crimes and violations of the law.

Van Anh