I have a curious question for y’all. Who is your role model? Who is that someone whom you want to be, or hope to one day grow to become? Who is that one person you look up to so much? For me, it is my mother. My mother is the strongest woman I know in my life – no matter what struggles or emotional pains life hits her with, she still continues living each day to its fullest and never lets these sufferings depict or pave out her life. There is this one video from my childhood

COVID-19 is a roller-coaster. Why do I say that? Well, just this time last year, Singapore was in its Circuit Breaker or “Lockdown” period due to the steep rise of migrant worker cases. But after that died down and Singapore slowly but surely moved to Phase 1, 2 and then 3, we thought that Singapore had COVID under control, and that we were almost back to “normal” (except with face masks of course)! But just recently, one year after our “lockdown”, we face yet another wave of

Smart Hands IT Support Service is becoming a more and more essential service that’s being offered by IT companies, especially now more than ever before! With borders restrictions and the need to quarantine for 2 weeks in Singapore before being allowed to go around, it is challenging and costly for businesses overseas who have local clients in Singapore who need technical help and support! So this is where Smart Hands comes into play! What is Smart Hands? Smart Hands is an on-

As companies sent millions of employees to work from home, and, more recently, kids went back to school remotely via video meetings with teachers, organisations’ attack surfaces expanded exponentially. Meanwhile, attackers had a heyday with COVID-19 related attacks. All of this means a ton of overtime work for security professionals. According to a Microsoft survey, a majority of business leaders reported budget increases for cybersecurity (58%) and compliance (65%) as their

Let me ask you this, doesn’t it seem like new major cybersecurity breaches are happening almost every day? Of course, the bigger the company, the greater the cost of downtime caused by an attack. Companies with 250 or more employees were revealed to be more than two times more likely to be targeted for an attack as companies between 10 and 49 employees. However, don’t get me wrong – this does not mean that small and medium sized companies (SMEs) are immune to such attacks! Al

COVID-19 has resulted in majority of employees working from home. But here’s the problem, by working from home, employees are now no longer connected directly to the infrastructure put in place at their physical office. This includes things like firewalls, servers/printers, and on-premises backup and recovery systems, etc. The list goes on. I mean, let’s face it. In an office environment, it’s easier to secure any transmission of data, as everyone is in a controlled environme

Tell me if this is not true. You probably have read many stories about people being scammed in Singapore. But here’s the thing. You probably think that that will never happen to you. Am I right? I mean, what are the chances that you would unwittingly fall victim to such scams? But in reality, more than S$7 million has been lost to scammers posing as technical support staff in the first four months of this year, an increase of more than 40 times from the same period last year!

This article was taken from the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). When you learn to spot the signs of phishing, you can better protect yourself and your loved ones against phishing scams. Phishing is a method in which cyber criminals use to fraudulently obtain your personal and financial information such as your login details, bank account numbers and credit card numbers. They often disguise themselves as a legitimate individual or reputable organisation in email, ins

COVID-19 has indeed turned what used to be our “normal”, one eighty! And in response to this pandemic, everyone had been suddenly and abruptly forced to work remotely. No transition or preparation period whatsoever. But while many employees might be currently enjoying the luxuries of working from home – sleeping that extra hour in the morning, not having to dress up for work, finally having the time to exercise after work, not having to squeeze like sardines in the packed tra

It’s a whole new world really. A whole new normal that everyone is forced to adapt to overnight. Gone are the days where colleagues can simply shout across the office or roll their chair to their colleagues’ cubicle to ask them a question. With everyone no longer working in the same office, and thus working remotely, confusion and unproductivity can result if employees do not have the right tools. Managing your employees and IT while working remotely is therefore crucial to t

As governments around the globe scramble to launch contact tracing to accurately map the transmission of COVID-19 amongst their citizens, this inevitably has led to an invasion of privacy, with applications (apps) about the pandemic being retooled to track a person’s every step. Some governments have even opted to launch a mobile app, which allows users to scan QR Codes at any location they are at, thus accumulating a database of users’ location, allowing the healthcare indus

Working from home is the new normal. And sitting in front of a webcam for hours is now normal – for both business meetings and sharing a ‘quarantini’ during virtual happy hours. Now that Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype and other services have taken over our daily lives as we know it – including job interviews and social gatherings – many are wondering how to look as good on the internet as they do in person. That means figuring out how to flatter your face on your colleagues’ la

As the number of new local cases of COVID-19 remain low, and there is the gradual easing of Circuit Breaker measures, it’s time that we take a step back and consider the new security challenges during our return to the office. In fact, no matter which country you are living in or current social distancing in right now, everyone is more or less in the same boat. This pandemic has driven huge, immediate changes to both our personal lives and working lives. I mean, it has litera

Tell me. When was the last time you really stepped away from work and took some time just for yourself? Turned off all the emails, the WhatsApp, the texts, the Facebook notifications, the constant worry about that next big project or deadline — and just took a moment for yourself to regroup and refocus? I’ll wait. Still thinking? Well, here’s the thing: Workplace burnout doesn’t solely happen when you’re putting in long hours at the office. It’s also a risk when you’re workin