(From left) Cyber Security Agency Chief Executive David Koh, MCI Permanent Secretary Gabriel Lim, MCI Minister S Iswaran, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Chan Heng Kee and SingHealth CEO Ivy Ng attend a press conference regarding the SingHealth cyber attack. The Straits Times In Singapore’s worst cyber attack, hackers have […]

KNOWLEDGE BELONGS TO THE WORLD According to  experts, GyoiThon identifies the software installed on the web server as OS, Middleware, Framework, CMS, etc. Then, run valid exploits for the software identified using Metasploit. Finally, it generates reports of scan results. GyoiThon executes the previous processing automatically. GyoiThon executes steps 1 and 4 automatically. The only operation […]

The Evolving Cyber-threat Landscape Laws and regulations must be updated accordingly, while governments must also encourage education and enable international threat intelligence sharing. Regulation is essential so that providers can build the necessary defences. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution opens up unprecedented business opportunities, it also increases the inevitability of a cyber-attack, and businesses need […]

Cisco Systems Inc warned on Wednesday that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with sophisticated malicious software – activity Ukraine said was preparation for a future Russian cyber attack. Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit has high confidence that the Russian government is behind the campaign, according to […]

A great proportion of hackers prefer the Linux operating system. Linux is loved by the hacking community, mostly because of the amount of control it puts into the user’s hands and it’s open source nature, Linux is also deemed more secure than windows, and less susceptible to attacks. A larger number of hacking tools are […]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) announced last week that it was fining a religious charity, The British and Foreign Bible Society, £100,000 under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “DPA”)[1]. In 2016, the charity’s computer network was compromised as a result of a cyber-attack. The ICO found that the attack was successful because the […]

Russia was behind a devastating cyber attack on Ukraine’s banks, government and power grid, the Foreign Office has said. Cyber experts at the National Cyber Security Centre say the GRU Russian military intelligence agency was almost certainly responsible for the NotPetya attack in June 2017. The Foreign Office last night said the attack had masqueraded […]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has awarded a £40m contract to 17 companies to monitor its cyber defences as it seeks to strengthen its online security in the wake of a series of high-profile attacks. The companies, which include Deloitte, PwC, Cisco and KPMG, will be testing how good the FCA’s current cyber defences are, suggesting […]

A draft standard released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as part of a public consultation will impose a range of cyber security related obligations on APRA-regulated organisations such as banks. Under the draft standard, CPS 234, an APRA-regulated entity will be obliged to spell out the information security related roles and responsibilities of its […]