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Singapore covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Singapore, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC
Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…
Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…
PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.…
Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry Singapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.…
PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more! Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.…
PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Asia in Brief Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages.…
Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…
Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more Infosec in Brief Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devices to information thieves.…
Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical infrastructure operators.…
Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and ChromeOS devices managed by its tools. In Singapore, the incident resulted in 13,000 devices being remotely wiped and saw the nation's Education Ministry cut ties with the vendor.…
Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities have proven it's possible to attack autonomous vehicles by exploiting the system's reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause it to not recognize road signs.…
A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users Indonesia has acquired spyware and surveillance technologies through a "murky network" that extends into Israel, Greece, Singapore and Malaysia for equipment sourcing, according to Amnesty International.…
When you decide not to trust a big chunk of the supply chain, tech (and trade) get harder One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used by China and the West, according to the island nation's Cyber Security Administration (CSA) chief executive David Koh.…
PLUS: Google Cloud ANZ boss departs; Japan revives airliner ambitions; China-linked attackers target Asian entities ASIA IN BRIEF Singapore's Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named "COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases" (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing.…
Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year.…
No time like the present, says central bank The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) advised on Monday that financial institutions need to stay agile enough to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) technology, without significantly impacting systems as part of cyber security measures.…
That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code Singapore-based infosec firm Group-IB has detected a group that spent the last two months of 2023 stealing personal info from websites operated by jobs boards and retailers websites across Asia.…
How SANS is helping boost the island’s defenses against whole-of-nation cyber attacks Sponsored The cyber attack which culminated in the personal details of 1.5m patients being compromised after hackers broke into the databases of SingHealth in 2018 provides a stark illustration of why organizations in Singapore need to remain vigilant and well protected against further incidents.…
More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based infosec outfit Group-IB on Thursday released details of a new Android trojan that exploits the operating system's accessibility features to steal info that enables theft of personal information.…