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…
HWZ Forum Site In Jeopardy Due to Malicious Entry and Suspicious Attacks The HardwareZone or HWZ Forum website was the recent victim of a security breach, affecting approximately 685,000 user profiles. This is according to the site’s owner SPH Magazines in a news release. According to the news release, a suspicious post had prompted an…
Russia and Ukraine Becoming Victims of the Notorious Bad Rabbit Ransomware A new strain of ransomware with a name Bad Rabbit spreads through “drive-by attacks” in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. The malware has apparently affected systems at three Russian websites, an airport in Ukraine and an underground railway in the capital city, Kiev. The cyber-police…
Hackers Are Becoming Smarter and More Adaptable to Technological Innovations Sophisticated hackers are now targeting energy and industrial firms – the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power industry and other public infrastructure. In view of this threat, the United States government recently issued a rare public warning. It stated…
What Wi-Fi Users Must Know About Their Browsing Security and Privacy The Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCert) has issued an alert following the discovery of major security flaws that puts every Wi-Fi users at risk. The flaws put all devices at risk worldwide, including every Internet user in Singapore. According to SingCert, these vulnerabilities…
