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S'pore SMBs see disaster recovery plans as luxury
News Local small and midsize firms diligent in data backup but still need to do more to safeguard business and customer data, survey finds.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Security, Business, Disaster Recovery, Survey, H1N1 flu, Disaster Recovery Planning, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Indonesia
Mobile banking picks up in Asia
News Banks that are on mobile banking bandwagon report strong growth, while analyst says those that lack such a service today are at risk of losing customers.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Business applications, Mobile applications, Hong Kong, Mobile Banking, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Citigroup Inc., Indonesia, financial
Websense: Hijackers target S'pore site
News Security vendor reports Web site of local book and stationery store Popular Holdings fed visitors malicious code on Saturday; firm says problem has been rectified.
Tags: Network security, Data security, Security Management, Security, Trend Micro Inc., Attack, Singapore, Websense Inc., payment, security company
Audit: No customer data exposed in Kaspersky breach
News Database security expert David Litchfield analyzes attack on security firm Web site and finds no sensitive data was accessed.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Customer Data, Security, Database, Attack, Bitdefender, SQL, Kaspersky, Attacker
Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user
News Rocky Mountain Bank says Google confirmed an e-mail with customer data that was mistakenly sent to a random Gmail address was never opened, has been destroyed.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, E-mail Address, Social Security, e-mail, San Jose, U.S. District Court, Google Gmail, E-mail clients, E-mail servers
Hacker site claims breach of third security firm Web site in a week
News HackersBlog breaches Web site of F-Secure in string of attacks on security firm sites.
Tags: Hacking, Web sites, Security, Site, F-Secure Corp., Database, Bitdefender, SQL, SQL Injection, security company
Microsoft warns of SharePoint bug
News The software maker says there is a glitch affecting a recent service pack of the portal software.
Tags: Network security, Microsoft Corp., Service Pack, Bug, Portal, performance, Web Site, Microsoft SharePoint, Network security, Web
HSBC companies slapped with US$5M fines over data breaches
News Three HSBC companies are hit with fines after the financial services watchdog finds they were not doing enough to protect customers' data.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security Management, Training, floppy disk, Identity Theft, insurance, financial, financial service, managing director
Jobless techies turning to crime
News The credit crunch will drive impoverished techies and IT workers to sell corporate data and use crimeware, forensic experts have warned.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Network security, Business security, Phishing, Security, Finjan Software Inc., Fraud, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, information technology worker
Sun CTO to form cloud security forum
News Wayne Horkan, Sun Microsystems' U.K. chief technology officer, plans to form a public and private sector organization to address cloud security issues.
Tags: Cloud computing, Network security, Security, Web Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., compliance, data protection
Social networks to augment analytics
News Relational links between people are being applied to refine business analytic findings and reduce rate of false positives, says SAS executive.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Strategic analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAS Institute, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, business analytics, public sector, business intelligence, social networking
Firms overlook Web 2.0 cost-saving potential
News As companies largely view Web 2.0 on an experimental level, they are likely to pass on it during the current economic downturn, say analysts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Cost control, Budgeting/cost control, savings, Business, Ovum, cost savings, Web Service, savings, e-mail
Asian firms prep for disaster, but not well
News More businesses recognize need to establish disaster recovery strategy, but face challenges deploying such plans successfully, say industry players.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery, Business planning, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Survey, Small And Medium Business, Malaysia, Business planning, insurance
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Companies are gathering more data and using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modeling to improve their businesses.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data, data mining, Fiat, RSA Security Inc., insurance, Prague, Customer, Web, car
Microsoft UK Web site defaced
News in brief The Web site of Microsoft UK's Press unit was "briefly replaced by unauthorized content" earlier this week.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
