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Password Stolen? Ransom Email is befalling to Hong Kong?

HKCERT received many incident reports recently, which involved a new form of email scam asking for ransom. No matter what's the email look like, they might get some common characteristics.   The content of these new ransom email include: Your password or personal information...
Release Date: 2 Aug 2018 6232 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (27 Jul 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (27 July 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.   「https」也可造假 慎防惡意網站 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-07-20, Chinese)Malicious Cyber Activity Targeting ERP Applications (US-CERT, 2018-07-25)Trojans: What’...
Release Date: 27 Jul 2018 2654 Views

Sensitive database breached. Everyone should check your system security.

Last week, a database of Singapore medical groups was being hacked, and about 1.5 million of patients record was leaked. According to the investigation, the intrusion is a type of targeted attack. It used an internet-facing computer as an intrusion gap...
Release Date: 23 Jul 2018 3396 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (20 Jul 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (20 July 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.   慎防供應鏈攻擊 保障網站安全 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-07-13, Chinese)8 Best Penetration Testing Tool Tips (Indusface, 2018-07-17)Move Over, ...
Release Date: 20 Jul 2018 2641 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (13 Jul 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (13 July 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.   培養良好上網習慣 保障資料私隱 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-07-06, Chinese)Millions of websites using HTTP may be labelled “Not Secure” with July Google Chrome update...
Release Date: 13 Jul 2018 2419 Views

How to configure your Windows PC to use the secure DNS service? (For home users only)

This guideline enables you to use the secure DNS service in your Windows PC.For more details, please refer to the following guideline: /my_url/en/guideline/18071001
Release Date: 11 Jul 2018 3057 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (6 Jul 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (6 July 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.   30秒加強電腦防禦 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-06-29, Chinese)Three Steps To Protect Yourself From Cybercrime During A Real Estate Transaction (Forbes, 2018-07-03)What is Ransomeware...
Release Date: 6 Jul 2018 2388 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (29 Jun 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (29 Jun 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.   堵路由器漏洞 7件事你要知 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-06-22, Chinese)Palo Alto Networks warns automated cyber attacks are on way (Financial Review, 2018-06-27...
Release Date: 29 Jun 2018 2130 Views

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (22 Jun 2018)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (22 Jun 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.   快速修復系統 保護機構聲譽 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2018-06-15, Chinese)5 Practical Steps for Leveling Up Your Threat Intelligence (Recorded Future, 2018-06-20)...
Release Date: 22 Jun 2018 2359 Views

Security Guideline – The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks (OWASP Top 10) – 2017

The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) community helps organizations develop secure applications. They come up with standards, freeware tools and conferences that help organizations as well as researches. OWASP top 10 is the list of top...
Release Date: 19 Jun 2018 2609 Views