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Tightening e-commerce security without ruining the customer experience

By Karthik Ramanathan, Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, APAC, Mastercard and webmaster webmaster | Monday, August 24, 2020, 12:05 PM Asia/Singapore | Newsletter, Opinions

The latest forms of biometric and risk-based authentication can boost cybersecurity and yet are transparent to customers. Find out how…

As digital commerce surges during COVID-19, criminals are using this disruption to scale up attacks and steal information they can exploit for financial gain. Google says it is blocking more than 240 million COVID-themed spam messages each day, along with 18 million malware and phishing emails.

Towards a passwordless future: A report

By Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director, FIDO Alliance | Friday, August 21, 2020, 10:17 AM Asia/Singapore | Newsletter, Opinions

Reducing password-reliance in common identification and authentication processes requires a concerted global catalyst: the pandemic may be just the thing!

About 15 years ago, Bill Gates said at a cybersecurity conference in San Francisco that “passwords cannot meet the challenge of keeping critical information secure.” Fast forward to today, and we are still busy trying to create a world that is less reliant on passwords.

When we know remote-working puts corporate cybersecurity at risk …

By CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Friday, August 21, 2020, 10:14 AM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter

we should bolster security practices and policies instead of dwell in complacency, as one US survey seems to indicate.

By now, the whole world knows that the massive global move to remote-working has attracted more cyber attackers and scammers. In yet another survey, the results point to the same trend.

Sharp rise in remotely-exploitable Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Vulnerabilities detected

By CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Thursday, August 20, 2020, 9:27 AM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter

This includes over 70% of 365 ICS flaws published in the National Vulnerability Database for the first half of 2020: Report.

More than 70% of industrial control system (ICS) vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely, highlighting the importance of protecting internet-facing ICS devices and remote access connections.

Rushed digitalization has 64% of global businesses fearing for their security

By CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 11:17 AM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter

If a recent study by a bug-bounty program is anything to go by, the APAC region is mirroring that cybersecurity anxiety.

Recent research is showing that 56% of businesses in the Asia Pacific region believed their organization was more likely to experience a data breach due to the pandemic.

Singapore’s digital natives have a false sense of security: report

By CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 9:30 AM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter

84% of the nation’s Gen-Z and digitally-savvy people thought they were secure online, but 44% had actually been exposed to cyber-incidents.

Almost all households in Singapore have a mobile phone (97%) and a computer (92%), while just over three quarters have a tablet or Smart TV (both 77%). On average, each household has three mobile phones and two computers. This number increases to an average of four mobile phones and three computers among the Generation Z (18 – 24-year-old) group.

‘Temi’ robot that coulda compromised security of seniors and vulnerable users

By L L Seow | Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 9:20 AM Asia/Singapore | Features, Newsletter

Cute, novel and useful—yet a robot concierge coulda (ooda) given hackers the power to harm elderly folk and hospital patients.

A personal robot designed for use in senior care and healthcare settings has been found to harbor vulnerabilities that could have been exploited due its perceived harmlessness and utilitarian, novel nature.

The hacker-powered way to maximize security while reducing costs

By Rena Chua, Bug Bounty Advisor, HackerOne and webmaster webmaster | Monday, August 17, 2020, 12:15 PM Asia/Singapore | Newsletter, Opinions

Vendor consolidation and hacker-powered programs can reduce costs and improve cybersecurity, argues this bug bounty expert.

Remember those pre-pandemic days when you thought your security scope was complex? Now, with employees working from home, new video-and collaboration- apps being rolled into our daily workflows and less physical oversight of devices and access, it seems like we are all longing for the seemingly-airtight security of 2019, right?