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Singapore’s Fullerton Health breach sees massive loss of data from 400,000 people

This is another lesson to not let our guard down – even with third party vendors – and to assume that threat actors can always infiltrate your infrastructure anytime.

Nov 1 2021 4:44PM

Cloud security not keeping pace with changing APAC landscape

McAfee report shows that four countries in the region – India, Australia, Japan, and Singapore – are the most vulnerable in 2021, and it may get worse due to talent shortage

Oct 27 2021 8:04AM

Fortifying DNS security can better protect the healthcare sector

The large amounts of patient and insurance data used in healthcare has made the industry attractive to cyber breaches. DNS is one of the mostly commonly used attack vectors. How can we prevent them?

Oct 26 2021 10:02AM

Should APAC businesses start moving to Zero Trust now?

The Zero Trust framework will enable an organisation to have full visibility of their networks and detect any unusual activity in a timely manner.

Oct 25 2021 9:07AM

Manufacturing and production industries more able to handle ransomware attacks

The need to prepare proper recovery measures is critical should a ransomware attack occur – but for manufacturing and production companies, this may mean restoring data from backups and not submitting to demands.

Oct 20 2021 8:10AM

How new tech helped to expose the Pandora Papers leak

The use of data science revealed complex offshore transactions made across millions of documents in the Pandora Papers, showing up hidden assets and how the wealthy avoided taxes and laundered money.

Oct 20 2021 8:08AM

How to protect your operational technology environments from security risks

As new operational processes become digitised and automated, organisations need to be mindful of the security and resiliency of their cloud environments.

Oct 19 2021 9:33AM

‘Bug Bounty ‘set up to improve 5G commercial products

Cyber security is now critical in the telecoms industry as the deployment of 5G will lead to an increase in the potential attack surfaces.

Oct 14 2021 8:03AM

5G can boost the digital economy, but be mindful about the risks

With 5G, cyber criminals now have more entry points – from insecure connections, weak digital supply chain links and access to billions of hackable smart devices – to penetrate your network.

Oct 13 2021 8:06AM

The vulnerabilities of APAC databases put them at risk from data breaches

Australia, Singapore, China, and Japan rank above the global average of 39% with at least half or more of their databases deemed vulnerable.

Oct 13 2021 8:04AM

What can tech companies and businesses learn from Facebook’s outage?

The incident has shown how a single risk event can have a devastating effect and bring a global organisation to a complete standstill.

Oct 11 2021 8:01AM

Netherlands-Singapore collaboration to combat high-tech financial crime

Netherlands’ CFLW Cyber Strategies and Singapore’s TAU Express aims to use AI and analytics to tackle crimes involving cryptocurrencies.

Oct 8 2021 8:04AM

Singapore SMEs hit by cyber breaches, but fare better than regional counterparts

Half have suffered losses of $500,000, while the most common methods that attackers used to infiltrate their systems include malware and phishing.

Sep 29 2021 8:03AM

Financial sector bears the highest costs from DNS attacks

Cyber attacks on financial institutions not only hurt the industry but have a wider implication for the economy and can have a devastating negative impact.

Sep 27 2021 8:15AM

What will it take to stop the next ‘supply chain hack’?

Cyber criminals can still breach your organisation by targeting your software or IT services vendor. These hacks can greatly impact in the theft of data, your business’s most precious asset.

Sep 20 2021 8:03AM

Security taking a backseat as organisations prioritised remote networking

As organisations evolve their remote access, many have yet to establish proper security controls, processes, and policies for remote work. Will this come to bite?

Sep 14 2021 8:13AM

Phishing can be perilous if you underestimate its impact

A lack of a clear definition or consensus on phishing by IT individuals and their companies – not just in Asia but globally – is raising alarm bells.

Sep 13 2021 8:02AM

Tips on how to secure your healthcare data in multi-function devices

As patient information is captured using the available network of MFDs, the information becomes vulnerable to human error, theft or delivery of data through noncompliant mobile devices – giving rise to breaches.

Sep 10 2021 8:10AM

Hong Kong Baptist University brings cloud-based security campus-wide

Through the use of Cisco solutions, the university has built a zero-trust security and network infrastructure serving 26,000 HKBU students and staff.

Sep 8 2021 8:03AM

How prepared is the healthcare industry to ward off cyber breaches?

With the high cost of medical equipment and practitioners slow to embrace digital technologies, is the sector a ticking time bomb for an attack that will have ramifications beyond data loss and be fatal to critical-life services?

Sep 1 2021 8:07AM