Delays Ruining Push by Members to Comply with the New EU Privacy Law Google is leaving some firms open to fines by delaying its entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies. These delays are causing problems for members who are pushing to comply with the European Union’s regulations. This EU privacy law could tremendously…
How Can the “Big Tech” Threat Significantly Influence the World Economy? Amazon, Google, and Alibaba are some of the “Big Tech” firms which could see as much as US$12 trillion in wealth. That is if they decide to offer wealth management as part of their services. More than 50% of global High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs)…
Simple Printing Errors Lead to Data Breach: Too Unconventional, Yet Possible Did you know that careless handling in printing would lead to a data breach? Often, we heard of data breaches due to insiders’ jobs or cyber-attacks. Little do we know that printing errors can lead to unintentional data disclosure and data leaks, too. Whether…
Hackers Steal Millions of Patients’ Personal Information: How Does Singapore React? The personal information of 1.5 million SingHealth patients, including Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a few other ministers, has been stolen in one of the country’s most serious cyber attack incidences. SingHealth is Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions. It comprises of…
HTTP to HTTPS: What Can We Expect from this Massive Google Update? From July 2018 onward, all sites that do not use the HTTPS encryption will automatically be flagged by Google’s Chrome browser. According to reports, this is in line with the launch of Chrome 68, which at the moment is the most recent edition…
What Are the New Domain Policy and Procedures to About ICANN’s WHOIS Verification? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), is an international non-profit corporation that plays one important role in the internet governance ecosystem. Moreover, this ranges from the Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country…
Another Incident of a Malware Attack Potentially Compromising Private Information A malware attack has reportedly hit an outsourced Australian-based vendor in Singapore. Consequently, it may have compromised confidential information of applicants for public-service jobs. According to reports, the main victims were users of the Careers@Gov online portal, where vacancies are listed and applicants invited for…
Implications of Not Having the Secure Indicator for the Google Search Engine Up until now, secure websites on Google Chrome showed the HTTPS secure indicator in the address bar along with other visual cues like the padlock icon at the bottom which indicates the website you were visiting was secure. Secure connections to websites have…
DigiCert Acquisition of Symantec: What Can We Expect in the Coming Years Leading cybersecurity company, Symantec recently announced that it has sold it’s public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies and website security to DigiCert. The latter is a leading provider of scalable security solutions. The landmark sale was for a whopping USD$950 million along with a…
GDPR Will Affect Your Domain Name Potentially Due to Accessing WHOIS Data For many of us, we are not familiar with the term GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). GDPR is basically a European regulation that aims to strengthen protection for the use and storage of a person’s data. Even before it’s introduction last month, there…
