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Tappee data breach: an outsider got into SATS's school meal-ordering app through a flaw and reached student names, concession card numbers and some allergy records at four schools.
Read the story →Tamil Nadu panchayat accounts cyber fraud: about ₹22 crore of rural health grant money was moved out of three panchayat unions' accounts through a bank portal. No arrests yet.
Chrome zero-day CVE-2026-125350, a use-after-free in XML handling, is exploited in the wild. Google fixed it in Chrome 157.0.8103.50/.51 on 9 November.
CyberArk research finds 95% of Asia Pacific and Japan organisations suffered two or more identity breaches, with machine identities the least protected.
Group-IB flagged 500+ phishing IPs and 1,900+ malware IPs for INTERPOL's Operation Synergia, which led to 31 arrests and hundreds of C2 server takedowns.
Every connectivity piece of Cloudflare One, its single-vendor SASE platform, is now generally available, including the Magic WAN Connector branch appliance.
Lumen's managed EDR service for Asia Pacific: AI detection on laptops and PCs, automatic rollback, a 24/7 SOC line, and an IDC security assessment called X-Secure.
Tim Liu of Hillstone Networks names the shifts he expects in 2024: AI threats, cloud gaps, a wider attack surface, human error and digital trust.
Jumio's Frederic Ho argues that biometrics alone won't stop bank fraud in Malaysia without liveness checks and risk scoring on each login.
Norman Willox and Tom Patterson argue that steal-now-decrypt-later attacks make quantum-safe encryption urgent, and set out a four-step plan to prepare.
Keysight's Keith Bromley explains how a visibility architecture of taps and a network packet broker lets companies get more years out of existing security tools.
Tony Teo of NETSCOUT Arbor on how DDoS moved from volumetric floods to application and stateful attacks, and why criminals still rely on it.
Cybereason's Eric Nagel and PLDT and Smart CISO Angel Redoble explain the Defend Forward strategy, the Cyber Defenders Council and why people still decide the fight.
ManageEngine's Subhalakshmi Ganapathy explains why Southeast Asian firms are exposed to breaches and leaks, and what adaptive security requires.
Veritas's Gary Sievers on rising ransomware in Asia Pacific, the security gap left by COVID-era transformation, and a protect, detect and recover framework.
RMM tools are known for automating IT chores for managed service providers. N-able argues its N-sight platform also closes security gaps for their clients.
A Tenable survey of 1,500 security professionals shows how firms entering the metaverse rate the risk of deepfake avatars, eavesdropping and phishing.
Synthetic identity fraud blends real and invented personal details into a new person. Why banks in Southeast Asia struggle to spot it and what detection relies on.
Ransomware hit several Singapore organisations in 2021. Cohesity's Threat Defense, DataGovern and Project Fort Knox aim to put prevention first.
Thai Airways Amadeus data breach: about 60,529 passenger booking records were accessed through the reservation provider Amadeus, and 376 may include passport numbers. Card data wasn't hit.
SPH Media data breach: attacks on five systems between 4 and 8 November exposed about 9% of the Singapore publisher's customer database, mostly email addresses. No card data was taken.
Data breach notifications from 10 Philippine government agencies, the BIR and SEC among them, have reached the National Privacy Commission, which is now reviewing each case.
Indonesia financial sector malware attacks: the Hirudo trojan swaps bank apps for patched copies, threat-map counts hit 1.2 million a day and parliament will summon BSSN.
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