Dissent

Robert Lemos writes: Lawmakers in Singapore updated the nation’s cybersecurity regulations on May 7, giving more power to the agency responsible for enforcing the rules, adopting definitions of computer systems that include cloud infrastructure, and requiring that critical information infrastructure (CII) operators report any cybersecurity incident to the government. The Cyber Security Act amendment takes […]

Lok Jian Wen reports: The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. The Mobile Guardian app, which is installed on personal learning devices including Chromebook laptops

A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations. As part of this operation, YunHe Wang, 35, a People’s Republic of China national and St. Kitts and Nevis citizen-by-investment, was arrested on May 24

Ang Qing reports from Singapore: A company running online language lessons for children around the world used a password based on its website name, LingoAce, making it vulnerable to the data breach that resulted. More than half a million users were affected. Among personal data compromised were the cellphone numbers, bank account numbers, signatures and

Laura Dobberstein reports: Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption key to the government. That key was in the form of an 54 kb ESXi file. Its efficacy has not yet been confirmed.

CNA reports: Singapore: Upset that he was fired, an employee accessed his former company’s computer test systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them about S$918,000 (US$678,000). Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorised access to computer material. Another charge was