Cybersecurity

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) headed by its Commissioner Tony Lourey has issued a document to both houses of Congress detailing its data breach happened with the department affecting 11,000 people. It only took the hackers to persuade a DHS employee in opening an “invoice” email, and the department normally receives 92,500 phishing/spam emails

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has governed under a One-China, Two-systems policy since 1997. That means the great firewall of China which is enforced in the mainland is not applied in Hong Kong. It decides on its own about its internal policies when it comes to governance, including the responsibility of making sure that

Cybersecurity is a big word that is being used by IT professionals and the mainstream media nowadays, unfortunately, the latter still lack understanding on how to explain it to common people. There is a gap between how the cybersecurity vendor markets their products and services vs how the mainstream media handle the reports as if

In our continued coverage of Singapore’s Cybersecurity status, a national committee composed of top-ranking ministers partnered with captains of Singapore’s IT industry are set to review the city-state’s current data security policies. The city-state made its decision to form a super committee which will be headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Teo Chee Hean, he

For years, we broke news about various organizations becoming victims of data breaches, cyber attacks, spear phishing, and other cyber crimes. We feel sorry for these firms, as nobody deserves to be in a very humiliating and financially stressing situation such as becoming a victim of cybercrime. Today, it is fairly normal to hear this

What are we expecting from the world of cybersecurity, as we enter its second quarter of 2019? In order to predict whatever theoretical or reasonable trajectory that we will experience for the rest of the year, let us review happened in 2018 and discuss the trend of 2018 as a guide for this year based

Google services has become very influential for two decades now, to a point that the world is heavily depending on it for everyday stuff. Services like email, videos, messaging, authentication across many web services and etc are highly dependent on Google working as it should. We can safely say that a downtime of a Google

We are in the paradigm shift when the majority of companies, slowly but surely embracing cloud computing and cloud apps platforms. Cisco’s CISO Benchmark Study 2019 is a global survey participated and represented by 18 countries with 3,200 participants, majority of whom are leaders in the IT field, across many industries from SMEs to multinational

Maintenance and continued use of legacy systems by many corporate entities today make the goal of cybersecurity for the world today a tall order. As organizations are transitioning to new systems, the old systems remain running in order to maintain their clients under their current business model. Of course, the reliability of the old system

2018 was a very bad year for microprocessor vendors due to the Spectre and Meltdown bug, but for Intel, it was a nightmare year, worst in its history. The out-of-order execution and branch prediction capabilities of processors were developed in a way that allows timing attacks, which made Spectre and Meltdown take the cybersecurity headlines