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Kaspersky has announced the appointment of Sandra Lee as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Sandra and her team will drive the company’s strategy and overall growth in the region. “APAC has always been a focus market for the company and I am excited to take up this leadership role as we continue…
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Global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky, has announced the expansion of its academic partnership program with tertiary institutions in Singapore, signing three separate Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Republic Polytechnic (RP), and Temasek Polytechnic (TP). The move comes as the Singapore government outlined its new proactive cyber-security strategy earlier in October. As…
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The growth of phishing attacks mimicking e-payment pages was spotted in the run-up to the Black Friday period. The total number of financial phishing attacks disguised as e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627,560) to October 2021 (1,935,905), indicating a 208% increase. This and other findings are in Kaspersky’s ‘Black Friday 2021: How to…
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30% of people see no problem in secretly monitoring their partner, finds new research on stalkerware
To mark the second anniversary of the Coalition Against Stalkerware co-founded by Kaspersky, the digital privacy company commissioned a global survey of more than 21,000 participants in 21 countries about their attitudes towards privacy and digital stalking in intimate relationships. Stalkerware enables a perpetrator to digitally monitor another person’s private life via a mobile device…
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Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing industries today and presents a great number of opportunities for professional development. In the Women in IT podcast, five women from Kaspersky discuss how they built their careers in IT, in both technical and non-technical areas, and share advice for women aspiring to start their journey in cybersecurity. To tackle the…
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By Chris Connell, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky Smart home technologies have long ceased to be something new or surprising. Today, the idea of smart home appliances or switches isn’t from a cyberpunk scene, but rather an actively emerging reality. For example, the report from Berg Insight revealed that the number of smart…
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Victor Chebyshev, senior security researcher at Kaspersky, GReAT shares: “According to WhatsApp’s Terms and Conditions, if a user complains about inappropriate content or someone’s account, the service then has access to their recent messages. Numerous people have falsely concluded that this regulation annuls end-to-end (E2E) encryption. We need to distinguish between such terms as end-to-end…
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By: Chris Connell, Managing Director, Kaspersky Asia Pacific Imagine this: your company has a precious treasure to protect, the defences with the latest technology were set up. However, the guards on duty were not informed of the treasure, neither were they provided the knowledge of how to navigate the defence systems. Worse still, the guards…
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By Genie Sugene Gan, Head of Public Affairs & Government Relations for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky The recent cyberattack incidents involving the largest pipeline system for refined oil products and one of the world’s biggest meat producers in the United States serve as yet another reminder that countries will continue to deal with cyberattacks. And…
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From robot companions to AI choosing the perfect partner, technology has become permanently entwined with dating and finding love, especially after a year and a half of lockdown that made digital connections the only type possible. To understand the security implications of this trend, Kaspersky researchers conducted an in-depth study of nine popular dating apps…
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