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…
HTTPS SEO Strategy: Is it Really Feasible to Get SSL Certificates Or Just a Costly Add-on? The Secure Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) was created to do similar tasks as HTTP with the additional layer of protection – it leverages Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, to create an encrypted channel to allow authorization and completely secure…
Major Bug Prompted Twitter Users To Change Passwords For Security Purposes Twitter has since urged its more than 330 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text. According to reports, an investigation revealed there was no evidence of a breach or misuse of the unmasked passwords. However, as…
Why Server Virtualization Relevant in Today’s Improving Technology? Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. It benefits the administrators of a system where users need to be separate from one another and from the original server. In a…
Hacking into the Universities in Singapore: Is There a Laxity in Security? An Iranian hacking syndicate has allegedly attacked four universities in Singapore and pilfered more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from varsities all over the world. According to reports, the breach affected 52 staff accounts including: Nanyang Technological University (NTU)…
Choose the Perfect SEO Singapore Expert to Elevate Your Business’ Performance Online If you want your business to be the first to pop up on major search engines like Google and Yahoo, then it’s time you hire a good SEO Singapore expert. With such tough competition these days, better search engine visibility is crucial to…
