Thirteen schools had their websites defaced on 20th November. All of them have been restored today, although only just so. When I checked last night, three schools still had their homepage spewing Joomla SQL errors, and another ...
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Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
I cannot help but start sharing my two cents on the recent incidents involving the purported attacks on the PMO and Istana websites. I had wanted to give our government the benefit of doubt. But now I’m wondering if they ...
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I’m not surprised at all that something has happened to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. They had it coming when the Prime Minister threatened the cyber attackers. I wonder did the Infocomm Development ...
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News just in from Tech In Asia, a leaked internal incident report from IDA has revealed that their ISP “routing problems”, coupled with the failure of an Internet router, caused the massive outage last Saturday that ...
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This is breaking news. The Anonymous hacker group had threatened a protest on November 5th. I wonder if they have struck early. A whole bunch of Singapore government websites, including the likes of www.gov.sg, www.ida.gov.sg, ...
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I attended a Business Continuity Management (BCM) conference yesterday. Their theme for this year is about how Big Data is changing BCM and Cloud. It’s a little puzzling eh, how Big Data can be related to BCM and Cloud. It ...
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Having a tough time finding a cab in Singapore? A local startup, GrabTaxi, is here to help make cab booking easier and more convenient for everyone. The GrabTaxi mobile app, which connects commuters directly to cab drivers’ ...
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There are nine exchanges where OpenNet fibres from customer premises are terminated at. One of these, the one at Bukit Panjang, was badly damaged by a fire last week (9 Oct). It resulted in a variety of service disruptions to ...
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Sometimes, I must admit, I cannot understand the logic of our government. The latest comes in the form of casino patronage and the integrity of the civil service, which, according to our prime minister, is somehow linked. A new ...
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Another year, and another Disaster Recovery (DR) drill is done. We did what we had planned to do in the exercise, and everything largely went according to plan. This has become somewhat of a routine. There were several hiccups, ...
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