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Singapore Firms Told To Shore Up Cyber Defences – ST

Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team, or SingCert, advised companies to strengthen vigilance and online defences to protect themselves from cyber attacks


A new cybersecurity report by Microsoft says China is weaponising software flaws by using them to conduct attacks before they are fixed.
The Microsoft report says Russia has increased the number of cyber attacks to 'relentlessly' target critical infrastructure in Ukraine. File photo: Reuters.

 

Organisations in Singapore have been told to strengthen their cybersecurity following warnings of increased cyber threats globally, arising from recent cyber attacks on Ukraine, The Straits Times reported.

Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCert) advised companies to strengthen their cybersecurity, vigilance and online defences to protect themselves from cyber attacks such as web defacement, distributed denial of services (DDoS) and ransomware.

Read the full report: Straits Times

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.

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