Every security control has a human story attached. When a medically vulnerable customer cannot remove a ventilation mask for a facial recognition step, the design of that control suddenly becomes a barrier, not a protection. That reality was brought sharply into focus by Mr Shalom Lim Ern Rong’s letter aboutContinue Reading
Banks must offer clear, workable alternatives when biometric face verification is not an option. The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s requirement for multifactor authentication is non-negotiable — security cannot be sacrificed — but neither can accessibility. Recent correspondence from Mr Shalom Lim Ern Rong made that painfully obvious: medically vulnerable customersContinue Reading
Moltbook’s arrival is not a thought experiment. It’s a wake-up call. A social network where AI agents converse, collaborate and evolve has shifted from novelty to a strategic risk vector almost overnight. Elon Musk’s blunt assessment — calling this the “very early stages of the singularity” — is not hyperboleContinue Reading
Moltbook’s tumble should be a wake-up call for every small and medium enterprise in Singapore that thinks speed equals safety. A platform built to let AI agents swap code and gossip managed to expose private messages, email addresses of more than 6,000 people and over a million credentials. That isContinue Reading
Google’s new age-verification measures are now live across multiple products in Singapore, and this is not a minor update. The rollout — using machine learning to estimate ages based on search activity, YouTube viewing categories and other account signals — will automatically apply protective settings for accounts assessed as belongingContinue Reading
Google’s recent takedown of IPIDEA and its sprawling residential proxy network is a pivotal moment, not just a headline, and not just a technical victory. This move — domains seized, command-and-control infrastructure disrupted, Play Protect turned on to block malicious Android apps — strikes directly at a toolset that turnedContinue Reading
When a calm, elderly voice grows suddenly frantic over the phone, alarms must sound. This is not melodrama; it is a pattern that has cost families their life savings. Digital arrest scams have evolved into a system of emotional warfare: polished impersonation, fabricated paperwork, threats of legal ruin and constantContinue Reading
Beijing’s directive to purge US and Israeli cybersecurity tools from Chinese firms is not just a geopolitical escalation; it is a wake-up call for every technology-dependent organisation in the region — especially SMEs that juggle scarce budgets, lean IT teams and high customer expectations. Reading the Reuters reports, I feltContinue Reading
India’s recent push to force smartphone makers to hand over source code and make sweeping software changes is not just another regulatory episode; it’s a reckoning. The plan—83 security standards, mandatory source code review, government notification of major updates, automatic malware scans, extended on-device logs, and the ability to uninstallContinue Reading
South Korea’s new rule — requiring facial recognition to activate any new smartphone from Dec 23 — is a decisive move that will ripple beyond the peninsula. This isn’t a subtle nudge. It’s a structural change to how identities are verified at the point of sale, and it will shiftContinue Reading
