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Read more: Kaspersky Expands Academic Partnerships in SingaporeGlobal 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…
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Read more: Online payment fraud increases by 208% amid the Black Friday seasonThe 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…
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30% of people see no problem in secretly monitoring their partner, finds new research on stalkerware
Read more: 30% of people see no problem in secretly monitoring their partner, finds new research on stalkerwareTo 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…
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Read more: Kaspersky launches its first ‘Women in IT’ podcast, highlighting the variety of careers in cybersecurityCybersecurity 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…
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Read more: How smart homes are changing our lives in 2021By 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…
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Read more: Comments: WhatsApp end-to-end encryptionVictor 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…
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Read more: The human element in cybersecurity – more than codes and digital systemsBy: 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…
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Read more: Filling the gaps: The story of APAC’s cyber capacity buildingBy 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…
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Read more: Dating apps in 2021: technically safer but threats of stalking and doxing still loomFrom 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…
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Read more: Almost 9M cryptominers prevented in SEA SMBs in 2020, more than phishing, ransomware combinedIn Southeast Asia, cryptomining is the highest in terms of attempted attacks blocked by Kaspersky at 8,926,117 in 2020. Detected phishing attempts were at 2,890,825 while ransomware attempts were at 804,513 last year. Malicious cryptocurrency malware used in cryptomining is being used by cybercriminals to use hardware they don’t own…
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