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Data breach incident management and recovery

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Singapore remains hotbed for cyber threats

  Singapore was a victim of advanced persistent threats, phishing and website defacements in 2017, according to the latest threat landscape report by the Cyber Security Agency

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Singapore faced cyber attacks during Trump-Kim summit

  Russian attackers allegedly scanned IP phones in the city-state for vulnerabilities, although it was unclear what they were after or whether they were successful

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Investigators close Nokia extortion probe without finding a motive or making an arrest

  New details of €2m blackmail of Nokia in 2007 emerge as Finland’s NBI calls a halt to its investigation

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Singapore career website hit by PageUp malware scare

  A Singapore government career website was among others affected by a malware attack on an Australian recruitment technology supplier

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  One-third of firms would pay ransoms rather than invest in security

  Report says businesses are still making the same mistakes, failing to make any progress in crucial areas such as cyber security awareness and preparedness

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  Grab outlines its approach to cyber security

  Singapore-based ride-hailing company prefers detective controls rather than preventive ones to deter cyber threats – an approach it claims is less intrusive and costly to implement

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  APAC organisations could lose $1.75tn from cyber attacks

  A study by Frost and Sullivan has found that losses from cyber security incidents could account for 7% of the region’s GDP in 2017

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  SMEs more worried about GDPR’s threat to reputation than fines

  SMEs are more worried about the damage GDPR non compliance will do to their reputations than their wallets

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Financial sector cyber-related laws are a bellwether, says Deloitte

  As the regulatory landscape becomes more complex, organisations should look to the financial sector to see what else is coming, as well as focus on three key areas of GDPR compliance, according to Deloitte

• May 03, 2018 03 May'18

  City Police use Lego simulation to teach businesses cyber security

  City of London Police are offering to train business leaders and IT security in cyber security using a Lego simulation that is surprisingly close to real life

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  PAC sets June 2018 deadline for Department of Health to count NHS cost of WannaCry

  Government spending watchdog orders Department of Health and Social Care to work out the cost of the WannaCry ransomware attack on the NHS so trusts know where to target their cyber security spending

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  APAC is becoming a hotspot for DDoS attacks

  The region’s largest and most-connected economies are most vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to CenturyLink

• April 15, 2018 15 Apr'18

  Australian healthcare services most hit by data breaches

  Nearly a quarter of data breaches reported under Australia’s new mandatory data breach regime took place in the healthcare sector

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  UK cyber attack reporting set to be more streamlined

  Government funding has been allocated to help streamline cyber attack reporting, according to the National Cyber Security Centre

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Government to set up £13.5m cyber security centre

  Located at the 2012 Olympic Park, the London Cyber Innovation Centre could create up to 2,000 jobs in cyber security