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Almost half of businesses have experienced a cyberattack or data breach in the past year – and almost all of the organisations that know they’ve been on the receiving end of attacks have reported being targeted by phishing and other fraudulent emails as the volume of these attacks continues to rise. The larger the organisation, […] More
Apple iOS smartphone users in Hong Kong are being targeted in a new campaign exploiting online news readers to serve malware. This week, Trend Micro researchers said the scheme, dubbed Operation Poisoned News, uses links posted on a variety of forums popular with Hong Kong residents that claim to lead to news stories. Newly-registered members […] More
Engineers on Google’s Chromium project are working on a new setting to satisfy Chrome users who still want to see the full URL of a website in the browser’s address bar. However, Google thinks showing it could be bad for users making decisions about a website’s security. Right now the feature is only available in […] More
Singapore faces the highest cybersecurity risk in Asia-Pacific due to its high internet adoption rate, but it also is the most prepared to deal with it in terms of policies and organisational readiness. On the other end of the spectrum, Indonesia faces the least risk exposure and also is the least prepared to handle cybersecurity […] More
Image via Bitdefender For almost a week, a group of hackers has been breaking into people’s routers and changing DNS settings in order to point unsuspecting device users to coronavirus-related sites pushing malware. The attacks have currently targeted D-Link and Linksys routers, according to reports from cyber-security firm Bitdefender and tech support forum and news […] More
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has argued that councils should be able to skirt metadata laws for the purpose of pursuing a breach of the law, citing high-crime activities such as illegal rubbish dumping and the removal of trees. ALGA is a federation of state and territory local government associations. It considers itself the […] More
While artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automated machine-driven processes are increasingly important in providing better cybersecurity, as well as fraud and risk management, in the financial services sector, Mastercard believes there will still be a place to keep a human in the loop. “We do believe that humans will continue to play an […] More
Dark web concept and darknet anonymous access to a website as a technology security concept in a 3D illustration style. Getty Images/iStockphoto Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web services, has shut down today after getting hacked for the second time in 16 months, ZDNet has learned. Almost 7,600 dark […] More
