Outfits that can rummage around inside customer systems need to prove they're up to the job - and accountable Cybersecurity service providers must for licenses to operate in Singapore, under new regulations launched by the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on Monday.... [...]
Beijing may have had a hand in attacks in Ukraine, too China has been accused of conducting a long-term cyber attack on India's power grid, and has been implicated in cyber attacks against targets in Ukraine.... [...]
Think tank fears future studies of this sort may be harder as social networks withdraw data Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).... [...]
The fight against economic espionage and skullduggery continues Taiwan's Ministry of Justice has tasked its Investigation Bureau to conduct a series of raids around the island and hauled in 60 Chinese nationals suspected of lifting trade secrets or poaching talent from China-owned firms.... [...]
Details emerge of the now-patched flaws Singapore's Cyber Security Group, an agency charged with securing the nation's cyberspace, has uncovered four critical flaws in code from network software company Riverbed.... [...]
IT giants reportedly contemplating relocation of Eastern European ops Indian IT services giants Infosys and Wipro both operate offices in Russia - and neither is saying what will become of them.... [...]
Knights depart Chinese mega-corp's round table Updated Multiple reports have surfaced claiming that two members of Huawei's UK board have resigned over the company's stance – or lack thereof – on Russia's illegal invasion of the Ukraine.... [...]
Critical zero-day vulns spotted in popular Schneider kit If you're managing a smart model from ubiquitous uninterrupted power supply (UPS) device brand APC, you need to apply updates now – a set of three critical zero-day vulnerabilities are making Smart-UPS devices a possible entry point for network infiltration.... [...]
Probe builds on one already in process for Instagram Reports that ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok is harmful to children are under investigation by a number of US attorneys general.... [...]
Law enforcement to work in a more networked, borderless fashion – just like the crooks The digitalisation of the global workforce in the face of a pandemic has led criminals to upgrade their working model, and now law enforcement must too.... [...]
Plans to block more scam sites, share liability between banks and customers Singapore will step up up efforts to stamp out phishing and spoofing, ministers told the island nation's parliament on Tuesday.... [...]
People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook Myanmar's military junta has floated a cyber security law that would ban the use of virtual private networks, under penalty of imprisonment and/or fines, leaving digital rights organisations concerned about the effects …
Coinhive-slinger wins on appeal A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware.... [...]
Director-general pleads with cyber-scum: leave this data alone, because the people involved have suffered enough Humanitarian organization the International Red Cross disclosed this week that it has fallen foul of a cyberattack that saw the data of over 515,000 "highly vulnerable people" exposed to an unknown entity.... [...]
Edict follows widespread bank phishing scam claiming well over $6.3 million A widespread phishing operation targeting Southeast Asia's second-largest bank – Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) – has prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to introduce regulations for internet banking that include use of an SMS Sender ID registry.... [...]
Visitors have to install it 14 days prior to arrival in China until their departure Toronto-based Citizen Lab has warned that an app required by Beijing law to attend the 2022 Olympics contains vulnerabilities that can leak calls and data to malicious users, as well as the potential to …
Last set of rules written in 2010 – a whole different era in tech terms The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DoJ) Antitrust Division are launching a joint public inquiry as a first step to modernising merger guidelines and preventing anticompetitive deals.... [...]
Scam has claimed 469 victims in December alone, of which OCBC has issued goodwill payments to 30 The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it is considering supervisory action against Southeast Asia's second largest bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), which was criticised for its incident response to a widespread phishing …
Glitch is spilling private data and there's not much Apple users can do about it An improperly implemented API that stores data on browsers has caused a vulnerability in Safari 15 that leaks user internet activity and personal identifiers.... [...]
Law enforcement agency now has one year to delete any data older than 6 months not related to criminal activity The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has ordered European Union law enforcement agency Europol to delete any data it has on individuals that's over six months old, provided there's …
Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat American budget retailer Walmart was cited for 19 alleged cybersecurity breaches in China, state-sponsored media reported last week.... [...]
No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification A top US Army War College paper suggests Taiwan should credibly threaten to eradicate its semiconductor industry if threatened by China so that Beijing would no longer be interested in unification.... [...]
Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has suspended Alibaba Cloud's membership of an influential security board to protest its handling of the Log4j flaw.... [...]
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China Social media and search engine operators in Japan will be required to specify the countries in which users' data is physically stored, under a planned tweak to local laws.... [...]
Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company Smartphone payment provider LINE Pay announced yesterday that around 133,000 users' payment details were mistakenly published on GitHub between September and November of this year.... [...]