Article 5. State policies on network information security 1. Promoting training and human resource development for network information security to meet demands for political stability, socio-economic developments, national defense, social order and safety. 2. Encouraging research and development, supporting export and market expansion for products and services, providing mechanism to support the application of network information security technique and engineering domestically produced or supplied; giving favorable conditions for importing advanced products and technologies that cannot be produced or supplied domestically. 3. Securing an environment of fair competition in provision network information security products and services; encouraging and creating conditions for organizations, individuals to invest, research and develop and supply network information security products and services. 4. Allocating resources to ensure network information security of state bodies and network security of information systems of national importance. Article 6. International cooperation on network information security 1. International cooperation on network information security should abide by the principles as follows: a) Respecting the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries without intervention in internal affairs of the others, for equality and mutual benefits; b) Complying with Vietnam laws and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a state member. 2. Contents of international cooperation on network information security: a) International cooperation on research and application of science, technique and engineering of network information security; b) International cooperation in prevention and fighting against illegal acts in relation with network information security, and against the abuse of information network for terrorist acts; c) Other international cooperation on network information security. Article 7. Prohibited acts 1. Illegal prevention of network information transmission; intervention, access, damaging, deletion, change, reproduction and misleading of network information. 2. Illegal affecting, blocking the normal operation of an information system or legal access possibility of users to an information system. 3. Attack, illegal invalidation to disable the measures in place to protect network information security for an information system; attack, illegal appropriation of rights to control, and sabotage of an information system. 4. Sending spams, malware, establishing a fake or swindling information system. 5. Illegal collection, use, dissemination of or trading in personal information of others; exploitation of a weekness point of an information system to collect and exploit personal information. 3

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