Asian security firms face blocks in global market
Asian antivirus firms gain success with freeware, but products lack comprehensive coverage and support to compete with established players, says analyst.
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S'pore SMBs see disaster recovery plans as luxury
Local small and midsize firms diligent in data backup but still need to do more to safeguard business and customer data, survey finds.
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3FA not priority for Asian banks, regulators
Banks in region still ironing out two-factor authentication rollouts and unlikely to implement additional authentication layer just yet, says analyst.
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Tis season to be shopping online, at work
Employees plan to spend 14.4 hours shopping online from work computers during this year-end festivities, highlighting need to keep systems secure, study finds.
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S'pore looking to improve online security
Monetary Authority of Singapore exploring new guidelines to enhance security for online transactions and credit card payments, says Visa exec.
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Asian TLDs bide their time on DNSSEC
update Thailand goes ahead to adopt security protocol for country-code top-level domain, but other countries in region continue testing and may not follow suit yet.
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Saudi faces tough time with cybercrimes
Government official in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says "close to impossible" to completely eradicate "fast-developing" cybercrime techniques.
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Govt red tape adds to security threats
Bureaucracy and lack of sharing of data between countries impede efforts to address cybersecurity, but work is in progress to resolve issues, notes global industry body.
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Symantec welcomes Microsoft's market entry
Microsoft's free Security Essentials suite will help increase user awareness but its ineffectiveness will create false sense of security, says Symantec exec.
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S'pore firms lag in online protection
update Fewer popular Web domain owners in Singapore authenticate e-mail or have strong protection for Web surfing compared to global sites, new scorecard shows.
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Singapore sets up IT security body
Country establishes new government agency, under the Internal Security Department, to combat cyber terrorism and espionage threats.
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India working on standard for biometrics
Government looking at national standard to provide "level-playing field", as India readies e-government initiatives based on biometric technology.
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S'pore Net users can't fish out phishers
Some 83 percent of Singapore Web users are unable to spot tell-tale spelling errors in phishing scams, compared to 76 percent in India, new survey finds.
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Printer makers mum on new security standard
New security standards for devices such as printers, copiers and multifunction systems have emerged, but details on hardware compliance are scant.
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Browser extensions may be used for attacks
Organized crime can "easily" create legitimate applications and then insert malicious code in the form of updates, says Auckland-based security expert.
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Cyberattacks lay more 'stepping stones'
More intermediate domains are used to mask attack endpoints to extend longevity of malware families, new research from MessageLabs shows.
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Symantec airs dirty Web sites in public
Forty of the "dirtiest" 100 sites each have over 20,000 threats, while 75 percent have distributed malware for more than six months, security firm says.
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APAC security growth 'remarkable'
Security market in Asia-Pacific region enjoyed double-digit expansion in 2008 despite downturn, Gartner says.
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Security 101: Look back to advance
Malware is growing in sophistication, but cybercriminals may not be as novel as most think, say experts. Learning diligently from the past would help.
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Taiwan bank scam rides on Adobe flaw
E-mail purportedly from Taiwanese bank tries to trick unsuspecting users into clicking malicious link, then attempts to gain control of machines, according to Symantec.
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