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Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers
2020-05-04 02:51

Singapore will from May 12th require all businesses to adopt a system that checks visitors into and out of their premises using their smartphones, and has already made using the system compulsory before entering some venues. Called "SafeEntry", the system is designed to enhance Singapore's coronavirus contact-tracing capabilities and requires visitors to either scan a QR code or allow their phones to be scanned to record a barcode in the national e-services app.

Singapore government scraps physical 2FA tokens for government services
2020-04-01 03:26

Singapore will bin the physical tokens used to provide two-factor authentication for some digital government services. The city-state operates "SingPass", a government service that connects Singapore's residents with 200 government services.

Singapore's 'Fake News' Law Enforcement Draws Criticism
2019-12-05 13:48

Facebook Forced to Label Government Criticism as 'False'Singapore's recent order requiring Facebook to label a blog critical of the ruling government as "false" has drawn harsh criticism. And the...

Facebook made to ‘correct’ user’s post as Singapore flexes fake-news muscle
2019-12-04 11:59

"Facebook did a great job," said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower's arrest was based on hearsay.

Call for Papers: SecurityWeek's 2020 Singapore ICS Cyber Security Conference
2019-11-13 02:38

The Central ICS/SCADA Cyber Security Event of the Year for the APAC Region! read more

Singapore Man Charged in Large-Scale Cryptomining Scheme
2019-10-11 15:33

Prosecutors Say Suspect Stole IDs and Cloud Resources to Mine Virtual CurrenciesA Singapore man allegedly ran a large-scale cryptocurrency mining scheme that involved using stolen identities to...

US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time
2019-10-09 23:47

Man alleged to have faked identity as game developer A man from Singapore has been indicted in the US for impersonating a game developer in order to steal time on cloud compute systems and mine...

Tune in today: Learn lessons from Australia and Singapore – find out how to thwart cyber-crooks probing your IT
2019-10-08 22:00

Protect your business with Carbon Black Webcast Stop press: there are miscreants out there, and they are looking to break into your computer systems and steal your data. But you knew that, right?…

Singapore Lays Out Plans for Operational Technology Cybersecurity
2019-10-02 08:39

Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on Tuesday unveiled the country’s Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan, whose goal is to help enhance the security and resilience of...

Singapore Ministry of Defence Launches New Bug Bounty Program
2019-10-01 10:44

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is inviting 400 white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in its systems, as part of a three-week program hosted on hacker-powered pentesting and bug...