Singapore

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2019
Singapore presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan to increase the resilience of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) sectors. The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan to enhance the security and resilience of Singapore’s Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) sectors in delivering essential services. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2019
Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program

Singapore has announced the third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the security of government systems exposed online. The government of Singapore has announced its third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the level of security implemented for government systems exposed online. The bug bounty program sees the involvement of the Cyber Security Agency of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
Secur Solutions Group data leak exposes 800,000 Singapore blood donors

Secur Solutions Group data leak – Another clamorous data leak made the headlines, personal information of 808,201 blood donors in Singapore was exposed online. The news was first reported by The Straits Times, the huge trove of data was contained in a database operated by the Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG). People who registered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2019
Whitefly espionage group was linked to SingHealth Singapore Healthcare Breach

Security experts at Symantec linked the massive Singapore Healthcare breach suffered by SingHealth to the ‘Whitefly’ cyberespionage group. In 2018, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2017
The Singaporean Defence Ministry was hit by a cyber attack, no secrets were exfiltrated

The Singaporean Defence Ministry confirmed that threat actors have breached government systems stealing personal information of its employees. On Tuesday, the Defence Ministry confirmed that unknown hackers have breached government system and have stolen personal information belonging about 850 Singapore national servicemen and employees. Data accessed by hackers includes telephone numbers, dates of birth, and national […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2016
Massive DDoS attacks caused broadband outages to StarHub customers

Massive DDoS attacks caused broadband outages to StarHub customers,it is the first time that Singapore has experienced such an attack on its infrastructure. StarHub in Singapore is the latest victim of a massive DDoS attacks powered with compromised IoT devices against its DNS infrastructure. It seems that hackers used kit owned by its customers, the company mitigated […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2016
Singapore will isolate Government Computers from the Internet

The Government of Singapore will cut off civil servants’ work computers from the Internet in order to secure Government networks. The Singapore’s prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong confirmed this week that the Government would disconnect from the Internet government work stations within a year for security reasons. The measure was aimed at preventing cyber attacks that […]