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 […]
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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 […]
Many will have seen the recent global attack by the WannaCry Ransomware and the fact that it has now been stopped, semi-accidentally, by a UK security researcher alwareTech. This ransomware spread for only a few days, but infected over 900,000 computers in 150 different countries, by using an exploit to […]
30 variants of ASUS’ RT wireless routers are affected by poor cross-site request protection. RT-AC and RT-N variants using firmware older than version 3.0.0.4.380.7378 are affected. The lack of CSRF protection means that if the user has left the default credentials – admin:admin – in place, or if an […]
<Update> Most browsers seem to have the problem fixed, if you still see the issue, check for updates to your browser</Update> If you click on this link and you are using Chrome or Firefox you will probably see that it looks like a perfectly secure connection to apple.com, only it […]
A study by Dimensional Research shows that 64% of IT pros are mostly unprepared for mobile security breaches. 20% of businesses have experienced a mobile attack, and 24% don’t know or can’t tell if they have had one. More than 20% believe that a mobile breach could cost their company more than $500,000, […]
