Now & Next: Cyber Attacks

Now & Next: Cyber Attacks

Posted by SGCS Admin, 14-11-2017

The signs are innocuous: a slow network connection, a requested password update, a strange email from a colleague. The effects, however, have profound impacts on people, businesses, and governments al...

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core

Posted by SGCS Admin, 14-11-2017

WASHINGTON — Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover t...

Malaysia

Malaysia's CIMB says backup tapes containing banking customer data lost

Posted by SGCS Admin, 13-11-2017

Malaysia’s CIMB Group Holdings Bhd on Monday (Nov 13) said some magnetic tapes containing backup customer data were lost during routine operations, adding that there has been no evidence so far ...

North Korea to launch more cyber attacks on Britain that will bring ‘collateral damage’

North Korea to launch more cyber attacks on Britain that will bring ‘collateral damage’

Posted by SGCS Admin, 13-11-2017

NORTH Korea will bid to hurt Britain with more cyber attacks in the next year, experts have warned.   Kim Jong-un's regime was blamed by Britain’s Security Minister for the ‘WannaCr...

Proposed cybersecurity laws tweaked following public feedback

Proposed cybersecurity laws tweaked following public feedback

Posted by SGCS Admin, 13-11-2017

Following public feedback, the Government will scrap plans to introduce a licensing regime for cybersecurity professionals.   Cybersecurity service providers will also face less stringent contr...

Meet the keyboard warrior who crushes cyberattacks

Meet the keyboard warrior who crushes cyberattacks

Posted by SGCS Admin, 12-11-2017

From airports to metros and hospitals, cyberattacks have hit at the heart of cities and Governments in recent times. As institutions, organisations and nations grapple with such threats in an increasi...