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U.S. cybercrime-fighters enter agreements with Indonesia, Singapore

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When U.S. officials return from international conferences this week they can be thankful for bolstered cybersecurity alliances with two Southeast Asian countries.   The government has struck separate deals with Indonesia and Singapore to strengthen bilateral cooperation on fighting international cybercrime. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Indonesia’s police chief on Monday reached an agreement to increase U.S. training of Indonesian law enforcement officials to combat cyberattacks such as ransomware and to better use digital forensics, according to Straits Times newspaper. The State Department meanwhile signed a declaration of intent with Singapore’s Cybersecurity Agency to increase training and the sharing of technical information, ZDNet reported. Both Singapore and Indonesia are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an intergovernmental organization made up of members that increasingly have been targeted by hackers, researchers warned this year. Singapore in July said it had been victimized in its largest-ever cyberattack, in which suspected nation-state […]

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Poor ‘p@ssword’ hygiene and unpatched systems led to Singapore’s biggest ever cybersecurity breach

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An investigation into the July data breach incident at Singapore’s largest healthcare provider has revealed that local administrators made several critical mistakes that led to the breach, including the use of weak passwords and unpatched softwar… Continue reading Poor ‘p@ssword’ hygiene and unpatched systems led to Singapore’s biggest ever cybersecurity breach→

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According to Gemalto’s 2017 Breach Level Index Report, publicly reported data breaches compromised more than 2.5 billion data records as a result of 1,765 security incidents throughout the year. North America made up the bulk of these incidents a… Continue reading Take Control of Your Cloud with Gemalto at GovWare 2018!→

Singapore health system breach likely conducted by APT group, government says

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The government of Singapore says attackers responsible for a recent breach, largely being called the country’s worst in history, are likely inked to a state-backed advanced persistent threat group. S. Iswaran, Singapore’s minister of communications and information, said in a statement to the country’s parliament Monday that a government analysis of the attack shows that it is the work of known state-linked threat actors. Iswaran stopped short of naming the APT group in question, citing “national security reasons.” “The APT group that attacked SingHealth was persistent in its efforts to penetrate and anchor itself in the network, bypass the security measures, and illegally access and exfiltrate data,” Iswaran said in a statement. According to the AFP news agency, third-party security researchers had already indicated that the attack was linked to state-backed hackers. Iswaran’s remarks shed more light on the perceived sophistication behind the attack, albeit without attribution. Singapore initially announced the attack […]

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Hackers breach Singapore’s largest healthcare provider; steal records of 1.5 million patients, including the Prime Minister

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A hacker attack on Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions has compromised 1.5 million patient records, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release. Investigations by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and the Inte… Continue reading Hackers breach Singapore’s largest healthcare provider; steal records of 1.5 million patients, including the Prime Minister→

Hackers stole personal, medication data of a quarter of Singaporeans

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Hackers have breached Singapore’s health service and have stolen personal information of some 1.5 million patients. They have also compromised outpatient medication data of 160,000 individuals, including Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien… Continue reading Hackers stole personal, medication data of a quarter of Singaporeans→

Data breach: Millions of SingHealth users affected including Singapore’s PM

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SingHealth, the largest health care institution in Singapore has suffered a massive data breach in which records of over 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth’s polyclinics and clinics between from May 1, 2015, to July 4 this year … Continue reading Data breach: Millions of SingHealth users affected including Singapore’s PM→

Data of 1.5 Million People Breached in Singapore’s ‘Worst’ Digital Attack

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A data breach that’s being described as Singapore’s “worst” digital attack on record exposed the personal information of an estimated 1.5 million people. On 20 July, multiple ministries Singapore’s government held a press … Continue reading Data of 1.5 Million People Breached in Singapore’s ‘Worst’ Digital Attack→

Russia’s Seat at Trump-Kim Summit was Covert

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Much of the world was glued to their television screens or laptops June 12 watching the livestream of the summit meeting between the U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. To say the event was an orchestration would be an und… Continue reading Russia’s Seat at Trump-Kim Summit was Covert→