cyber attacks

The cybersecurity incident is the third ransomware attack reported by a Singapore-listed company in less than two weeks.

IPS Securex reported the attack on Jan 2 and ES Group on Jan 5

SINGAPORE (Apr 22): Recent data breaches, including one where details of HIV patients were leaked, won’t hold back Singapore’s efforts in testing and investing in the latest technology to build what it termed as a “Smart Nation.”

LONDON (Oct 4): Britain accused Russian military intelligence on Thursday of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in everything from sport to transport and the 2016 US presidential election.

(Sept 20): Taiwan is bracing for an onslaught of cyber attacks from mainland China ahead of local elections in November intended to undermine a president who has defied Beijing’s efforts to bring the democratically ruled island under its control.

SINGAPORE (Aug 20): By now, there is no question whether cyberattacks are a global scourge. And Singapore has not been immune: Both private companies and public-sector organisations here have been attacked.

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): Singapore has overtaken nations including the US, Russia and China as the country launching the most cyber attacks globally, according to Israeli data security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

SINGAPORE (April 6): Bringing personal tech devices to work have not only become an everyday practice but even a necessity at times. But according to one study by VMware (VMW), a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, this increasingly commonplace habit could p