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Cybersecurity
Aztech Global reports ransomware attack on IT network
The cybersecurity incident is the latest in a spate of ransomware attacks reported by Singapore-listed companies in 2024.
February 13, 2024
Cybersecurity
RE&S latest Singapore-listed company to be hit by spate of ransomware attacks
The cybersecurity incident is the third ransomware attack reported by a Singapore-listed company in less than two weeks.
January 11, 2024
Cybersecurity
ES Group, IPS Securex hit by separate ransomware attacks
IPS Securex reported the attack on Jan 2 and ES Group on Jan 5
January 07, 2024
Smart cities
Data breaches won't derail Singapore's tech push
SINGAPORE (Apr 22): Recent data breaches, including one where details of HIV patients were leaked, won’t hold back Singapore’s efforts in testing and investing in the latest technology to build what it termed as a “Smart Nation.”
April 22, 2019
Cybersecurity
Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks
LONDON (Oct 4): Britain accused Russian military intelligence on Thursday of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in everything from sport to transport and the 2016 US presidential election.
October 04, 2018
Cybersecurity
Chinese cyber spies target Taiwan's leader before elections
(Sept 20): Taiwan is bracing for an onslaught of cyber attacks from mainland China ahead of local elections in November intended to undermine a president who has defied Beijing’s efforts to bring the democratically ruled island under its control.
September 20, 2018
In print this week
In this new normal, governments lose cyber battles and people lose trust
SINGAPORE (Aug 20): By now, there is no question whether cyberattacks are a global scourge. And Singapore has not been immune: Both private companies and public-sector organisations here have been attacked.
August 20, 2018
Tech
Singapore overtakes US, Russia as country to launch most cyber attacks globally: Data
SINGAPORE (Sept 22): Singapore has overtaken nations including the US, Russia and China as the country launching the most cyber attacks globally, according to Israeli data security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
September 22, 2017
Tech
1 in 3 Singaporean employees are unknowingly putting their companies at risk
SINGAPORE (April 6): Bringing personal tech devices to work have not only become an everyday practice but even a necessity at times. But according to one study by VMware (VMW), a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, this increasingly commonplace habit could p
April 06, 2017