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Data breach incident management and recovery

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  APAC healthcare providers losing $23m to cyber attacks

  Healthcare organisations in the Asia-Pacific region could lose an average of $23.3m to cyber attacks, including losses from productivity and customer churn, a study finds

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Mumsnet denies 'thousands' affected by software glitch-induced data breach

  Parenting advice site Mumsnet moves to clear up reports that thousands of users have been affected by its recent data breach

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Data breaches in Australia show no sign of abating

  Australia’s privacy watchdog recorded over 800 cases of data breaches, nearly one year into the country’s mandatory data breach notification regime

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Innocent people arrested following surveillance blunders, IPCO reveals

  Interception of communications commissioner Adrian Fulford warns of “grave” repercussions for people wrongly identified as suspects due to errors made when government bodies access email, phone and telephone data

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  How traffic scrubbing can guard against DDoS attacks

  Although most scrubbing services can help fend off distributed denial of service attacks, a more comprehensive mitigation strategy is required to remain unscathed

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  DCMS funding fuels cyber diversity drive

  The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is investing in four new projects to drive the number of diverse candidates considered for cyber careers

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  IBM mobile cyber range starts European tour in London

  IBM’s mobile cyber range is kicking of a tour in London to raise awareness around the need for tried and tested cyber attack responses among organisations in Europe

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  CenturyLink opens Singapore SOC amid security services boom

  US telco’s second Asia-Pacific security operations centre in Singapore is one of eight globally as it bids to carve a slice of the security services market

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  New Zealand faces more state-sponsored attacks

  Nearly four in 10 cyber security incidents recorded by the National Cyber Security Centre were the work of state-sponsored threat actors

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  SingHealth and IT supplier fined S$1m for data breach

  Singapore’s data protection commission considered the fact that both SingHealth and its IT supplier fell prey to sophisticated threat actors, among other factors, when meting out the fine

• January 06, 2019 06 Jan'19

  Singapore Airlines’ software glitch exposed customer data

  More than 280 members of the Krisflyer frequent flyer programme had their personal information compromised by a one-off software bug

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Marriott data breach losses could be over half a billion dollars

  Direct losses related to a huge data breach at US hotel group could reach $600m

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2018

  Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Lauri Love battles police for return of computers as NCA confirms live investigation

  The National Crime Agency (NCA) confirms there is a live investigation into Lauri Love in the UK, as Love brings legal action against UK police for the return of seized computer equipment

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  APAC cyber security landscape to be more tumultuous in 2019

  Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene