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Surge of attacks Since mid-November 2014, HKCERT has been monitoring a surge of attacks from a network (AS network number 63854) belonging to a company called ”Hee Thai Limited” which claimed to be located in Hong Kong. The attacks from this network...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (24 April 2015)   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five 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 Week.    Bring Out Your Dead: An Update on the PCI relevance of SSLv3 (Trustwave, 2015-04-03) Cyber-Security Concerns to Know Before You Sign On (Radware, 2015-04-16) Why Do We Need Software Escrow? (InfoSec Institute, 2015-04-17) Advice for Unfastening CryptoLocker Ransomware (McAfee, 2015-04-22) 爸媽是否在臉書facebook 上分享太多小孩的生活細節? (趨勢科技, 2015-04-01, Chinese)

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (17 April 2015)   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (10 April 2015)   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (2 April 2015)   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert...

  Cover Story Mobile Instant Messaging Security Guidelines APCERT embarks on Cyber Attacks beyond Traditional Sources Some Home routers in Hong Kong prone to security issues Video: Beware of attacks targeting mobile devices (Chinese only) Video: Security Tips for Business and Individual...

  Mobile IM services is becoming much more common, for both personal or business related matters. They are used to transmit messages, web links, photos or other kinds of files to others for sharing. However, while enjoying the convenience of these services, it...

[Press released on 18 Mar 2015] The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) today has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) from the Asia Pacific economies.  For the fourth time...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (27 Mar 2015)   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert...

  Using the Shodan Internet services search engine to analyze home router problem in Hong Kong, HKCERT found a large number of home routers can be scanned out, 26% with the secure shell service opened, 21% with the file transfer service opened. These opened...