Unauthorised access of approximately 20,000 individuals’ and companies’ was preventable. Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has fined Tripartite Alliance SG$29,000. According to the PDPC Tripartite failed to put in place reasonable security arrangements to prevent the unauthorised access of approximately 20,000 individuals’ and companies’ data stored in its customer relationship…
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ACSC’s Critical Infrastructure Uplift Program to protect essential services from cyber security. The ACSC is calling for ACSC Partners to help pilot the Critical Infrastructure Uplift Program (CI-UP). CI-UP will help protect Australia’s essential services from cyber threats by raising the security levels of critical infrastructure organisations. CI-UP is part of the Australian Signals Directorate’s…
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The maturity of enterprise IT requires a robust security strategy is proving to be that much more challenging. Cyberattacks have become more daring and sophisticated – but businesses still on the back foot in their cyber defences as a result of remote working – cybersecurity companies must show they can…
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Attack occurs a week after insurance company announced it will no longer underwrite cyber-insurance policies covering ransomware. Insurance giant Axa has confirmed that one of its businesses in Asia was hit by a ransomware attack and will be investigating “some data processed in Thailand was accessed”. According to Reuters Axa…
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Sponsored content: Thursday, 15th April 2021, Australia In an era where data is more valuable than gold, cyberattacks in its multiple manifestations have dominated global headlines with account hijacking and injection attacks. Be it credential theft, brute force attacks, social engineering thefts or access control misconfiguration, the sophistication and damages…
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The Police Force recorded more than 12,900 technology crimes in 2020. In 2020, the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (Incident Coordination Center) handled more than 8,300 security incidents, a 12 per cent drop from the previous year, and the number of botnet incidents also decreased by 16…
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Cybersecurity teams around the world were challenged to enhance their security posture overnight. There’s no question that 2020 was a challenging year. The pandemic placed an enormous strain on the global economy, and cyber criminals took advantage of that and accelerated their nefarious activities. Cybersecurity teams around the world were…
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Recent cybersecurity incidents such as SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline were a “sobering”. The recent cybersecurity attacks on US government and private enterprises have caused the government to overhaul its cybersecurity strategy, with President Biden signed an Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks. Recent…
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Vulnerabilities could enable a malicious cyber actor to compromise vulnerable Exim servers. Multiple high severity vulnerabilities have been discovered within the Exim mail server. The most severe of these vulnerabilities allows remote code execution which could enable a malicious cyber actor to take full control of the vulnerable system. A…
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Craig Robinson program director Security Services at IDC looks at the disjointed C-suite. IDC’s recently published Security ServicesView research takes a look at various subjects and trends surrounding the who, what, why and how much questions that go into the purchasing of a myriad of security services. One of the…
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