Most traffic originates from public data centres. Automated bot traffic has significantly increased over the past few years with bad bots accounting for a huge 40 per cent of all traffic, according to a new report from Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions. The new report, Bot attacks: Top Threats…
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Despite COVID-19 turbulence. There has been an overall fall in scam encounters – three out of five consumers (59 per cent) were found to have been targeted by a tech support scammer in the last 12 months, a drop from 64 per cent in 2018. One out of six consumers…
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APAC countries come together to reflect on real-life cyber security incidents. The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) within the Asia Pacific economies. The theme of this year’s APCERT Drill is…
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Security and risk management spending grew 6.4 per cent in 2020. The strong growth rate reflects continuing demand for remote worker technologies and cloud security, according to analyst firm Gartner. “Organisations continue to grapple with the security and regulatory demands of public cloud and software as a service,” said Lawrence…
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The United States Department of the Treasury and the Monetary Authority of Singapore join to combat. The United States Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) announced the finalisation of a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) on Cybersecurity Cooperation. This announcement was made during Vice…
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hosted Vice President of the United States of America (US) Kamala D. Harris During US VP Kamala Harris’ with Singapore’s PM, both countries affirmed the longstanding and multi-faceted partnership between Singapore and the US. They also welcomed the announcement of new areas of cooperation as…
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More than half of APAC governments believe cohesive data sharing environments need national-level guidance. The emergence of digital adoption demands country governments establish a well-defined regulatory system to enable cohesive data sharing environments, according to the IDC report titled Asia/Pacific Governments’ Data Policies to Enable Digital Economies . Almost 2/3rd of the national…
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Malaysian digital market is seeing a disruptive digital transformation. Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) plans to extend its fraud detection and identity coverage in Malaysia, with – TeleSign, a global leader in digital identity and programmable communications. The partnership will help to safeguard Digi’s mobile users against Account Takeover (ATO) through…
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Attacks spike 64 per cent in last year. The frequency of ransomware attacks has increased dramatically over the past year, with most of these costly attacks targeting businesses, according to a new study from Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions. In the past 12 months…
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More than one third of organisations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach Ransomware has become the enemy of the day and the threat that was first feared on Pennsylvania Avenue and subsequently detested on Wall Street is now the topic of conversation of organisations around the globe. According to Frank…
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