SINGAPORE: A man who concealed a puppy in a laundry bag while smuggling it into Singapore from Malaysia was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and fined S$2,500 on Tuesday (Apr 15). Mahentharan Ganesan, 43, pleaded guilty to three charges – one count of importing an animal without a licence andContinue Reading
As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving and blending together. On top of that, attackers are hiding their campaigns more effectively and blurring the lines between cybercriminals and state-backed hacking. Last year, revelations rocked the United StatesContinue Reading
One of the most prominent of the smishing actors is often referred to as the Smishing Triad—although security researchers group Chinese-speaking threat actors and affiliates in different ways—which has impersonated organizations and brands in at least 121 countries, according to recent research by security company Silent Push. Around 200,000 domainsContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man repeatedly sexually abused his stepdaughter when she was aged between nine and 12 years old and threatened to kill her and her mother if she told anyone. However, he denied sexually assaulting her when he was arrested and claimed that she had falsely accused him. While out onContinue Reading
All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source AI framework called llama.cpp. This software allows people to relatively easily deploy open source AI models on their own systems or servers. However, if it is not set up properly,Continue Reading
Meanwhile, the Trump family’s crypto empire continues to expand. In late March, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., the president’s sons, announced a new bitcoin mining venture. Shortly before that, the parent company of Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, entered an agreement to launch a series of crypto exchange-tradedContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man who participated in an arrangement to convert money into cryptocurrency was sentenced to 19 months’ jail on Tuesday (Apr 8). Huang Wei-Ru, 37, pleaded guilty to two counts of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct and one count of unauthorised access to computer material. AnotherContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A former National University of Singapore (NUS) employee who cheated his reporting officer out of S$205,500 (US$152,000) was jailed for 46 weeks on Tuesday (Apr 8). Foo Siang Chi, 55, deceived the victim, a 58-year-old deputy director of Office of Facilities Management (OFM) at NUS into believing that heContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A pet groomer was fined S$10,000 (US$7,400) on Tuesday (Apr 8) over the death of a dog she left unattended on a grooming table in July last year. Vanessa Chiu Yan Er, 29, failed to secure a corgi with a double-arm lock, resulting in the dog slipping off theContinue Reading
Sometime after 9.45pm, a security guard informed a senior security shift leader that someone had driven a car into the swimming pool. When the security shift leader arrived at the scene, he found Teng in the driver’s seat. He knocked on the window of the car and asked Teng toContinue Reading
