Fraud According to a Global Economic Crime & Fraud survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (linked here) 41% of Malaysian companies reported Economic Crime in the last 2 years (up from 28% in 2016) 17% of fraud is committed by external actors. 69% of fraud is committed by employees in Malaysia 32% of […]
Steve Barnes
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Many Malaysian businesses see a lock on their office door, or their filing cabinet as the extent of their responsibility to protect their client’s data. Unfortunately things are more complicated now, there’s a lot more to consider. PDPA The Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) states Cybersecurity The PDPA […]
Routers from ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, ZTE., Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link are vulnerable to the the VPNFilter Malware, thought to have originated in Russia. At least a million routers infected According to security researchers, significantly more routers have been infected by VPNFilter than first thought. Malaysians are very vulnerable […]
There’s been a 24% increase with 153,000 complaints have been received by Microsoft, about this tech support scam. 15% of the complainants have lost money to the scammers. The scammers cold call users usually claiming to be from Microsoft. The are then walked through a number of steps that results […]
Source: https://thebestvpn.com/cyber-security-statistics-2018/ Access Devices Asia has been providing Security and Development solutions to businesses in Malaysia since 2003. IT Security is one of the fastest growing threats to Malaysian Businesses. We can help you Protect your data with backup solutions. Stop the bad guys at the door with world class antivirus […]
A survey by Broadband Genie shows that many routers may be at risk to hackers and virus because users don’t know how to update and manage security. Router Maintenance The survey that asked 2,205 people over 18 years of age whether the had performed any simple maintenance tasks such […]
This time last year the NHS was hit by the Wannacry Ransomware causing over 20,000 appointments and operations to be cancelled. After almost 12 months of analysis and 22 recommendations, implementation plans have still not been worked out and no final cost calculated. The biggest issue for the NHS were […]
As a warning to those interested in the IoT (Internet of Things). Hackers stole the High Roller Database of a casino using, of all things, a Smart Thermometer. The hackers used the weak security of the thermometer to connect through to other devices on the casino’s network. They downloaded the […]
Drupal is an open-source Content Management System, used by over 1 million websites in particular it is often used for Governments and Financial Companies. It’s round two for Drupal security as in 2014 it was hit with with Drupalgeddon, it’s just happened again. Drupal, however did not disclose the issue […]
Two new Matrix Ransomware variants were discovered this week. They are being installed on Windows machines using hacked Remote Desktop Services, according to the security team that discovered them MalwareHinterTeam. Machines that are connected directly to the internet, or those that have their router’s ports forwarded for RDS are […]
