[reuters query] anonymous in Asia
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Dear Subscriber, a quick query -- no need to respond if it's outside your bailliwick: we're looking for some quickish comments from security companies, experts, and anyone in the industry who can answer the following -- not looking for 'if you'd bought our product you wouldn't have this problem' so much as insight on the attack, the vulnerability, the responses of governments and IT departments, and the implications, political, technical and otherwise... If it's possible to get a few lines (or someone if they'd prefer to talk specifics) back to me in the next couple of hours, that'd be great.
- how bad have the attacks been on Singapore (and other regional) websites? There seems to be some doubt about whether the gov.sg websites were hacked, or whether the DNS registry was poisoned, or whether the government sought to anticipate any such attacks by taking those sites offline. What is your sense about what happened?
- what has the governments response been like? Marks out of 10?
- how seriously should the SG gov -- and other governments in the region, incl PH -- take such attacks and what can they do to mitigate it?
- is there any way to gauge whether these are coordinated attacks? Are they more or less sophisticated than ones we've seen in the past?
- do you expect more such attacks, either today, or in the future? Is this a sign of things to come, and if so what?
- Singapore has been instrumental in building a cybersecurity capability -- how good has it been? The talk is that the gov.sg sites went down because of a hole in the DNS registry for Singapore, and that the SPH blog site which was defaced ran a two year old version of WordPress; are these signs of a lax security approach, or are they just part of the many inevitable points of weakness in a system?
Best, Jeremy
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Jeremy Wagstaff
Chief Technology Correspondent, Asia
Chief Technology Correspondent, Asia
Singapore
Thomson Reuters
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jeremy.wagstaff@gmail.com OR loosewire@fastmail.fm
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