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It’s been a really busy weekend. For me, partly because there was some fallout from the revelation of the cyberattack on NUS. Then, there’s the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. I decided to check on the Wife’s ...
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Every new day, there’ll be a new security vulnerability. Often enough, it will be something important that even casual computer users ought to know about. This is one of them. If you’ve been taught to check ...
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A Channel News Asia headline on my Facebook feed caught my attention. “Your phone number is all a hacker needs to track you, steal your info.” This sounds deadly serious. Not thoroughly impossible, but I imagined if ...
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You’ve probably heard that using public or insecure Wi-Fi networks can be dangerous. Well, this point is now being reinforced by a recent disclosure by Google’s Project Zero concerning a serious security ...
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In the news last week, one of the headlines caught my attention. It was about the proposed expansion of the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. It was reported that obtaining hacking tools to commit crime, or the use of ...
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As a security practitioner, we’ll say that such breaches are not a matter of “if”, but only about “when”. However secure, your system will be breached, if not now, then later. For MINDEF, that time ...
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We have heard about it, that the popular SHA1 hashing function used in a lot of security software, is weak and should be deprecated and officially obsoleted. Certificate authorities had stopped issuing certificates with SHA1 ...
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Our computers, and IT in general, are fraught with all sorts of security issues. Every day, I read about something or other that will give rise to concerns. Most of the time, they don’t demand immediate action from casual ...
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I’m sure you must have heard about the dangers of sharing USB flash drives. Like the floppy disks that precede it, it’s one of the channels that software viruses, trojans, and other sort of malware are spread. But ...
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Many of us love free public Wi-Fi, and many merchants are eager to provide free Wi-Fi as one of their value-add services. But we know public Wi-Fi can be dangerous. The freely accessible unencrypted network is easy for the bad ...
