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Serious What an awful waste of money! Singtel's much vaunted elite subsidiary fails to preven

dr.wailing

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What an awful waste of money! Singtel's much vaunted elite subsidiary fails to prevent cyber attacks

Recently Starhub was the victim of two massive cyber attacks (October 22 and 24, 2016) and Singtel, located within the tiny city-state of about 750 sq. kilometers, was unable to avert the second attack.

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Cyberattack behind StarHub broadband disruptions

October 26, 2016

The two disruptions that StarHub broadband subscribers experienced last Saturday (Oct 22), and again, on Monday (Oct 24), was caused by a cyberattack, the telco said late on Tuesday, adding that it was keeping its eyes on possible follow-up attacks.

StarHub said it has completed inspections and analysis of its network logs, and “we are now able to confirm that we had experienced intentional and likely malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on our Domain Name Servers (DNS)”.

The source of the two attacks, however, is still being investigated, it added. “We continue to stay vigilant against possible follow-up DDoS attempts.”

A DDoS attack typically occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth of a targeted system.

“These two recent attacks that we experienced were unprecedented in scale, nature and complexity. We would like to thank our customers for their patience as we took time to fully understand these unique situations and to mitigate them effectively,” the telco said.

StarHub’s statement came after the Cyber Security Agency and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said a cyberattack cannot be ruled out as the cause of the disruptions on Saturday and Monday for StarHub’s customers. The agencies also added that other telcos here have been told to step up their defences against similar incidents.

In response to queries, Singtel said: “We did not observe any abnormal traffic trends over the past weekend but will continue to monitor our networks closely. We have a robust monitoring system and resilient protection mechanisms in place to safeguard our networks.”

M1 also said it was “on alert”.

“As a communications company, information security is at the heart of our business and we have made significant investments to defend our systems against cyberattacks, including DDoS attacks,” said a spokesperson.

Earlier, StarHub had issued a statement saying that a spike in data traffic to its DNS were what caused the disruptions.

While the telco said the security of its customers’ information “was not compromised” in the incidents, the CSA and IMDA said that they have been “paying close attention to developments” as the incident happened on the heels of Friday’s attack against the United-States-based DNS service provider, Dyn.

The Dyn attack was one of the largest DDoS attacks known — involving traffic coming from “tens of millions” of IP addresses, according to the company — and had rendered many popular websites unreachable, including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal.

The IMDA also said it is working with StarHub to strengthen its infrastructure and processes, while the CSA is “studying and addressing the risks of DDoS attacks on our communications systems, as well as the measures to mitigate the impact of such attacks if they happen”.

Source: http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/cyberattack-behind-starhub-broadband-disruptions
 

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According to the state-controlled media, Singtel has about 2,000 security professionals worldwide and it has a much-vaunted SpiderLabs cyber response team. How was it that the so-called "elite" SpiderLabs cyber response team failed to avert the second cyber attack on Starhub?

In the following news article, Singtel announced its partnership with Palo Alto Networks to protect firms against cyber criminals. The latter failed to protect Starhub from cyber attacks despite the partnership cost Singtel at least 75 million USD.

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Singtel works with Palo Alto to launch cyber security service

Marissa Lee
September 24, 2016


Singtel has partnered with security firm Palo Alto Networks to start a new service to protect firms against cyber criminals.

The Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) service, as it is called, helps firms secure their networks, mobile phones and tablet computers, which enables employees to bring their own devices to work.

The service operates on Palo Alto Networks' next-generation security platform, which protects organisations by allowing safe applications to pass through networks, cloud and endpoint devices, but blocks both known as well as unknown threats and suspicious applications.

Its service here is being delivered through Singtel's security operations centre, which monitors cyber threats globally. Singtel has 2,000 security professionals worldwide, including its elite SpiderLabs cyber response team.

Singtel also runs eight operations centres around the world to give organisations round-the-clock coverage. This is possible as the centres are constantly updated with information from Singtel cyber security arm Trustwave's sensors and the SpiderLabs malware research lab, as well as Singtel's network of security intelligence partners.


Research company Gartner said the global managed security services industry will grow from US$15 billion (S$20.4 billion) last year to US$27 billion by 2019.

Mr Bill Chang, chief executive of group enterprise at Singtel, said: "Together with our Trustwave service, the trained cyber security experts at our Advanced Security Operations Centre can forestall cyber attacks and use the information of any neutralised malware to update our global threat intelligence to benefit other regions."

Mr Mark McLaughlin, chairman and chief executive of Palo Alto Networks, said: "Our collaboration gives organisations the peace of mind to implement key technology initiatives within their cloud and mobile networks."

The ATP service is the first cyber security solution of its kind in the Asia-Pacific, Singtel said yesterday.

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/business/singtel-works-with-palo-alto-to-launch-cyber-security-service
 

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The following link will take you to an announcement that Singtel has committed about 500 million SGD to cyber security.

http://itrade.gov.il/singapore/2014...m-cyber-security-smart-cities-data-analytics/

In the light of the recent cyber attacks on Starhub and Singtel's utter failure to avert them, the 500 million SGD could be better spent on feeding close to half a million Sinkies who, on a daily basis, need food donations to survive. (cf. http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread....end-on-food-donations&highlight=food+donation)
 

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Re: What an awful waste of money! Singtel's much vaunted elite subsidiary fails to pr

Sam sending a message to Singtel?
 

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The Dyn attack was one of the largest DDoS attacks known — involving traffic coming from “tens of millions” of IP addresses, according to the company — and had rendered many popular websites unreachable, including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal.


whoa...how can that be man??? tens of millions of machines attacking at the same time, maciam saying got ghosts huh? :eek::biggrin:
 

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500 million SGD to be sunk to network security? No prize for guessing who will foot the bill in a 'highly competitive' market in SG!
 
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