Singapore’s digital defences have reached a perilous inflection point — the numbers do not lie. Malware-infected systems more than doubled to 284,300 in 2025, up from 117,300 in 2024. That stark escalation is not abstract; it is a chain of small, avoidable failures that combine into large, painful outages forContinue Reading
This is not a drill: Australia’s spy chief has put a spotlight on a brutal mix of violence, foreign coercion and state-level digital probing that every small business must treat as urgent. The headlines from Canberra are a cold, hard reminder that threats once labelled “strategic” or “distant” now arriveContinue Reading
The pace of AI development is shredding outdated assumptions about digital defence. Five Eyes agencies — Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand — have issued a blunt wake-up call: modern AI models are evolving fast enough to outsmart traditional security postures within months, not years. That bluntnessContinue Reading
Singapore and Japan are being asked to be counted. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development wants both nations to join the optional PISA financial literacy module, and this is not a polite request — it is a strategic insistence that cannot be ignored. Numbers matter. Comparable data matters. WhenContinue Reading
Senior Android users are being targeted in a ruthless new wave of scams that prey on trust, loneliness and unfamiliarity with technology. The tactic is cruelly simple: a friendly-looking ad on Facebook or TikTok, a prompt to share a phone number, a WhatsApp message that leads to an APK download.Continue Reading
Wake-up call for every Singapore SME that treats data as an afterthought: a hacking collective publicly claimed a breach of Novo Nordisk, stealing more than a terabyte of data and attempting a US$25 million extortion. The scale—source code, proprietary drug information, clinical trial files, employee records—should not be shrugged offContinue Reading
Mythos just detonated a new reality in the cyber arms race. What began as a promising tool to find software flaws has been paused under an order that makes the stakes unmistakably clear: when artificial intelligence can autonomously discover and weaponise previously hidden vulnerabilities, access controls are no longer optionalContinue Reading
Singapore’s move to team up with Microsoft to test frontier AI models is not optional window-dressing. It is a clarion call: when models can autonomously discover software bugs and craft exploits, complacency becomes culpability. This partnership between the Infocomm Media Development Authority and Microsoft is bold, necessary, and overdue. ItContinue Reading
Meta has escalated a legal fight that should alarm every small and medium business in Singapore and beyond. On June 8, a federal court contempt order was filed against NSO Group after evidence surfaced that the company violated a permanent injunction barring it from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users.Continue Reading
This week’s LittleLives incident with PCF Sparkletots is a blunt reminder: even trusted vendors can be the weakest link. The facts are clear — a compromised user account at LittleLives led to unauthorised access to a portion of the pupil management system. Photos and developmental records were hosted separately andContinue Reading
