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Security Advisory: Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon Passenger Data Breach
According to Cathay Pacific announcement on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, they have discovered unauthorized access to their 9.4 million passenger data including its subsidiary Cathay Dragon in early March 2018. The types of personal data accessed were the names of passengers, their nationalities, dates...
Release Date: 25 Oct 2018
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Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (19 Oct 2018)
Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (19 Oct 2018) . "Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight". Every two weeks we share news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected]. Below is the favourite security reads of this fortnight. Article written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times: 培訓員工 守護網絡最後防綫 (2018-10-05, Chinese)黑客入侵方式多 勿掉以輕心 (2018-10-12, Chinese) Articles that we like: Micro-...
Release Date: 19 Oct 2018
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Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (5 Oct 2018)
Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (5 Oct 2018) . "Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight". Every two weeks we share news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected]. Below is the favourite security reads of this fortnight. Article written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times: 企業良好保安監察 防洩密 (2018-09-21, Chinese)規劃前中後事故處理 保企業形象 (2018-09-28, Chinese) Articles that we like: GandCrab...
Release Date: 5 Oct 2018
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DNSSEC : ICANN scheduled Root Zone KSK Rollover on 11 October 2018
Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical and common network infrastructure, almost every network application need to use DNS to convert the hostname to IP address, for executing the subsequent network activities. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a security extension...
Release Date: 4 Oct 2018
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Please act now to enhance the protection of your Facebook account
It was reported that a vulnerability in "View as" function of Facebook was exploited and affected 50 million users. The vulnerability not only affected Facebook account. If you use Facebook account as authentication for other third party online services, it is possible that an attacker...
Release Date: 29 Sep 2018
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Ransomware Variants in the Wild, Stay Alert and Prevent Infection
In the past six months, HKCERT has received a number of cases of ransomware infections, which is on the rise. Most of the cases were infected by Cerber, while GlobeImposter, CrySiS and GandCrab were also contributed to the number of infection cases. Most of...
Release Date: 28 Sep 2018
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Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (21 Sep 2018)
Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (21 Sep 2018) . "Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight". Every two weeks we share news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected]. Below is the favourite security reads of this fortnight. Article written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times: 中小企4招 保障網絡安全 (2018-09-07, Chinese) 安全有效密碼 保護企業電腦 (2018-09-14, Chinese) Articles that we like: Multi-exploit...
Release Date: 21 Sep 2018
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Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (7 Sep 2018)
Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight (7 Sep 2018) . "Favourite Security Reads of the Fortnight". Every two weeks we share news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected]. Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Fortnight. Article written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times: 企業端點保安 6招加強防禦 (2018-08-31, Chinese) Articles that we like: Now Hackers Can Spy On You By Listening To Your Screen (Forbes, 2018-08-31) SonarSnoop attack could...
Release Date: 7 Sep 2018
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Favourite Security Reads of the Week (31 Aug 2018)
Favourite Security Reads of the Week (31 August 2018) "Favourite Security Reads of the Week", we share five news or articles that we like most during the week. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected]. Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week. 企業資安政策 需上下通力執行 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-08-24, Chinese)Exploit for Recent Critical Apache Struts Vulnerability Published (Securityweek, 2018-08-27)Emerging...
Release Date: 31 Aug 2018
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New @HKCERT Service! Waiting for November's Update!
Attention! Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) will launch a new subscription service - @HKCERT in Nov 2018. @HKCERT Service aims to disseminate information security related messages through email/SMS, and in the meantime, it can allow subscribers to enhance...
Release Date: 30 Aug 2018
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