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Personal data of 808,000 blood donors compromised for nine weeks

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Personal data of 808,000 blood donors compromised for nine weeks
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...mpromised-nine-weeks-hsa-lodges-police-report

SINGAPORE — The personal data of more than 808,000 blood donors ended up on the Internet in January — and was left there for nine weeks — by a vendor of the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), the authorities said on Friday (March 15).
In total, 808,201 individuals’ personal data was compromised. They were visitors to HSA’s blood banks and include those who were unable to donate blood due to illnesses.

The data mishandled by its vendor, Secur Solutions Group, included information such as the names, identity card numbers, gender and dates of the last three blood donations. In some cases, it included the donors’ blood type, height and weight, the HSA said in a statement.

RED CROSS URGES PEOPLE TO CONTINUE DONATING BLOOD

In a statement on Friday, Singapore Red Cross secretary-general and chief executive Benjamin William said it was unfortunate that donor information had been compromised.

He urged people to continue donating blood to hospital patients who need transfusions. Fourteen units of blood are used every hour in Singapore, said Mr William. The Singapore Red Cross is Singapore’s national blood-donor recruiter.
 

eatshitndie

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i am surprised MOH haven't sink yet after springing so many leaks....
moh will never sink. no ministry will ever sink with million dollar ministars in charge. blame will be on deep-shitted culture of lower ranks of civil serpents doing jackshit but going online, surfing the web, waiting for lunch time, choping tables, queueing for makan, and returning to office late talking cock about cars, food, 4d numbers and pussies.
 

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i am a regular sperm donor in Geylang.....do you think i will be exposed someday when there are more info leaks?


moh will never sink. no ministry will ever sink with million dollar ministars in charge. blame will be on deep-shitted culture of lower ranks of civil serpents doing jackshit but going online, surfing the web, waiting for lunch time, choping tables, queueing for makan, and returning to office late talking cock about cars, food, 4d numbers and pussies.
 

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moh will never sink. no ministry will ever sink with million dollar ministars in charge. blame will be on deep-shitted culture of lower ranks of civil serpents doing jackshit but going online, surfing the web, waiting for lunch time, choping tables, queueing for makan, and returning to office late talking cock about cars, food, 4d numbers and pussies.

I posit that the public sector for a peesai-sized city state Sinkieland is too bloated/compartmentalized, resulting in inefficiency and complacency.

Haranguing the private sector, especially SMEs, about raising productivity is hypocritical and farcical.
 

eatshitndie

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I posit that the public sector for a peesai-sized city state Sinkieland is too bloated/compartmentalized, resulting in inefficiency and complacency.

Haranguing the private sector, especially SMEs, about raising productivity is hypocritical and farcical.
when it cums to form filling, counting beans, and pushing papers sinkie civil serpents are world crass. they take it to the next level, like a seminar organized by contact sg and edb in sillycon valley. 6.9 pages of forms to fill online during registration and another 6.9 pages of hardcopy forms to fill by hand when you arrive at the conference room. they say it's for "security and verification" concerns. attendees in sillycon valley could easily tell it's bs and a waste of time. but in this case and many other cases, they can do jackshit with i.t. as they outsource the entire shit to consulting firms who simply farm it out again to (cheap and unproven) ah neh i.t. outsourcing firms.
 

eatshitndie

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oh dear, it's becumming more convoluted. health sciences authority (hsa) filed a police report too. apparently a "cyber security (s)expert" uncovered the vulnerability and alerted the personal data protection (pdp) commission. now the sexpert is under investigation if he intended to hack into database and disclose the data that he accessed. he was asked to delete the info that he had inadvertently uncovered on an open server via the internet. so instead of thanking this sexpert for uncovering and reporting a vulnerability they are suspecting and frying him now. and they claimed no other "unauthorized" persons sexcept the sexpert had accessed the database. they also point 6.9 fingers at the vendor for putting the database on a server that is openly accessible on the internet. all fingers point out. no fingers point back. they are pristinely blameless and flawless. must increase bonuses and pay.
 
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There is no doubt whatsoever that our Ministers and PAP MPS will say no worries and that everything is under control. And of course it's not their fault. The vendor will be prosecuted and executed, if necessary! KNNBCCB
 

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That is barely three months! Already an improvement. Last time how long before PAP own up on the AIDS data breach you tell me? :rolleyes:
 

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Singapore has one of the best cyber security measures in the whole wide world.

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Mind the air-gap: Singapore's web cut-off balances security, inconvenience

Jeremy Wagstaff, Aradhana Aravindan

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is working on how to implement a policy to cut off web access for public servants as a defense against potential cyber attack - a move closely watched by critics who say it marks a retreat for a technologically advanced city-state that has trademarked the term “smart nation”.


Public servants and contractors sit at their desks at a public housing administration center in Singapore June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Some security experts say the policy, due to be in place by May, risks damaging productivity among civil servants and those working at more than four dozen statutory boards, and cutting them off from the people they serve. It may only raise slightly the defensive walls against cyber attack, they say.

Ben Desjardins, director of security solutions at network security firm Radware, called it “one of the more extreme measures I can recall by a large public organization to combat cyber security risks.” Stephen Dane, a Hong Kong-based managing director at networking company Cisco Systems, said it was “a most unusual situation”, and Ramki Thurimella, chair of the computer science department at the University of Denver, called it both “unprecedented” and “a little excessive.”

But not everyone takes that view. Other cyber security experts agree with Singapore authorities that with the kind of threats governments face today it has little choice but to restrict internet access.

FireEye, a cyber security company, found that organizations in Southeast Asia were 80 percent more likely than the global average to be hit by an advanced cyber attack, with those close to tensions over the South China Sea - where China and others have overlapping claims - were particularly targeted.

Bryce Boland, FireEye’s chief technology officer for Asia Pacific, said Singapore’s approach needed to be seen in this light. “My view is not that they’re blocking internet access for government employees, it’s that they are blocking government computer access from Internet-based cyber crime and espionage.”

AIR-GAPPING

Singapore officials say no particular attack triggered the decision, but noted a breach of one ministry last year. David Koh, chief executive of the newly formed Cyber Security Agency, said officials realized there was too much data to secure and the threat “is too real.”

Singapore needed to restrict its perimeter, but, said Koh, “there is no way to secure this because the attack surface is like a building with a zillion windows, doors, fire escapes.”

Koh said he was simply widening a practice of ministries and agencies in sensitive fields, where computers are already disconnected, or air-gapped, from the Internet.

Public servants will still be able to surf the web, but only on separate personal or agency-issued devices.

Air-gapping is common in security-related fields, both in government and business, but not for normal government functions. Also, it doesn’t guarantee success.
Anthony James, chief marketing officer at cyber security company TrapX Security, recalled one case where an attacker was able to steal data from a law enforcement client after an employee connected his laptop to two supposedly separated networks. “Human decisions and related policy gaps are the No.1 cause of failure for this strategy,” he said.

“STOPPING THE INEVITABLE”?

Indeed, just making it work is the first headache.

The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said in an email to Reuters that it has worked with agencies on managing the changes “to ensure a smooth transition,” and was “exploring innovative work solutions to ensure work processes remain efficient.”


Johnny Wong, group director at the Housing Development Board’s research arm, called the move “inconvenient”, but said “it’s something we just have to adapt to as part of our work.”

At the Land Transport Authority, a group director, Lew Yii Der, said: “Lots of committees are being formed across the public sector and within agencies like mine to look at how we can work around the segregation and ensure front-facing services remain the same.”

Then there’s convincing the rank-and-file public servant that it’s worth doing - and not circumventing.

One 23-year-old manager, who gave only her family name, Ng, said blocking web access would only harm productivity and may not stop attacks. “Information may leak through other means, so blocking the Internet may not stop the inevitable from happening,” she said.
It’s not just the critics who are watching closely.

Local media cited one Singapore minister as saying other governments, which he did not name, had expressed interest in its approach.

Whether they will adopt the practice permanently is less clear, says William Saito, a special cyber security adviser to the Japanese government. “There’s a trend in private business and some government agencies” in Asia to go along similar lines, he said, noting some Japanese companies cut internet access in the past year, usually after a breach.

“They cut themselves off because they thought it was a good idea,” he told Reuters, “but then they realized they were pretty dependent on this Internet thing.”
Indeed, some cyber security experts said Singapore may end up regretting its decision.

“I’m fairly certain they would regret it and wind up far behind other nations in development,” said Arian Evans, vice president of product strategy at RiskIQ, a cyber security start-up based in San Francisco.

The decision is “surprising for a country like Singapore that has always been a leader in innovation, technology and business,” he said.

Reporting by Jeremy Wagstaff and Aradhana Aravindan, with additional reporting by Paige Lim; Editing by Ian Geoghegan

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
 

mojito

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Singapore has one of the best cyber security measures in the whole wide world.

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Mind the air-gap: Singapore's web cut-off balances security, inconvenience

Jeremy Wagstaff, Aradhana Aravindan

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is working on how to implement a policy to cut off web access for public servants as a defense against potential cyber attack - a move closely watched by critics who say it marks a retreat for a technologically advanced city-state that has trademarked the term “smart nation”.


Public servants and contractors sit at their desks at a public housing administration center in Singapore June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Some security experts say the policy, due to be in place by May, risks damaging productivity among civil servants and those working at more than four dozen statutory boards, and cutting them off from the people they serve. It may only raise slightly the defensive walls against cyber attack, they say.

Ben Desjardins, director of security solutions at network security firm Radware, called it “one of the more extreme measures I can recall by a large public organization to combat cyber security risks.” Stephen Dane, a Hong Kong-based managing director at networking company Cisco Systems, said it was “a most unusual situation”, and Ramki Thurimella, chair of the computer science department at the University of Denver, called it both “unprecedented” and “a little excessive.”

But not everyone takes that view. Other cyber security experts agree with Singapore authorities that with the kind of threats governments face today it has little choice but to restrict internet access.

FireEye, a cyber security company, found that organizations in Southeast Asia were 80 percent more likely than the global average to be hit by an advanced cyber attack, with those close to tensions over the South China Sea - where China and others have overlapping claims - were particularly targeted.

Bryce Boland, FireEye’s chief technology officer for Asia Pacific, said Singapore’s approach needed to be seen in this light. “My view is not that they’re blocking internet access for government employees, it’s that they are blocking government computer access from Internet-based cyber crime and espionage.”

AIR-GAPPING

Singapore officials say no particular attack triggered the decision, but noted a breach of one ministry last year. David Koh, chief executive of the newly formed Cyber Security Agency, said officials realized there was too much data to secure and the threat “is too real.”

Singapore needed to restrict its perimeter, but, said Koh, “there is no way to secure this because the attack surface is like a building with a zillion windows, doors, fire escapes.”

Koh said he was simply widening a practice of ministries and agencies in sensitive fields, where computers are already disconnected, or air-gapped, from the Internet.

Public servants will still be able to surf the web, but only on separate personal or agency-issued devices.

Air-gapping is common in security-related fields, both in government and business, but not for normal government functions. Also, it doesn’t guarantee success.
Anthony James, chief marketing officer at cyber security company TrapX Security, recalled one case where an attacker was able to steal data from a law enforcement client after an employee connected his laptop to two supposedly separated networks. “Human decisions and related policy gaps are the No.1 cause of failure for this strategy,” he said.

“STOPPING THE INEVITABLE”?

Indeed, just making it work is the first headache.

The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said in an email to Reuters that it has worked with agencies on managing the changes “to ensure a smooth transition,” and was “exploring innovative work solutions to ensure work processes remain efficient.”


Johnny Wong, group director at the Housing Development Board’s research arm, called the move “inconvenient”, but said “it’s something we just have to adapt to as part of our work.”

At the Land Transport Authority, a group director, Lew Yii Der, said: “Lots of committees are being formed across the public sector and within agencies like mine to look at how we can work around the segregation and ensure front-facing services remain the same.”

Then there’s convincing the rank-and-file public servant that it’s worth doing - and not circumventing.

One 23-year-old manager, who gave only her family name, Ng, said blocking web access would only harm productivity and may not stop attacks. “Information may leak through other means, so blocking the Internet may not stop the inevitable from happening,” she said.
It’s not just the critics who are watching closely.

Local media cited one Singapore minister as saying other governments, which he did not name, had expressed interest in its approach.

Whether they will adopt the practice permanently is less clear, says William Saito, a special cyber security adviser to the Japanese government. “There’s a trend in private business and some government agencies” in Asia to go along similar lines, he said, noting some Japanese companies cut internet access in the past year, usually after a breach.

“They cut themselves off because they thought it was a good idea,” he told Reuters, “but then they realized they were pretty dependent on this Internet thing.”
Indeed, some cyber security experts said Singapore may end up regretting its decision.

“I’m fairly certain they would regret it and wind up far behind other nations in development,” said Arian Evans, vice president of product strategy at RiskIQ, a cyber security start-up based in San Francisco.

The decision is “surprising for a country like Singapore that has always been a leader in innovation, technology and business,” he said.

Reporting by Jeremy Wagstaff and Aradhana Aravindan, with additional reporting by Paige Lim; Editing by Ian Geoghegan

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Dip seater culture bro, it can't be helped. We should applaud the gov for their timely and forceful action.
 
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