Author: Dickson
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AXA Exits General Insurance Business
After announcing the completion of sale to HSBC earlier in February, AXA recently made the decision that its general insurance (GI) arm, along with its motor insurance, will be heading into a run-off. This means that while AXA will continue to honour any ongoing insurance coverage and claims for the next 1 year till all…
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Cargo Ship Fire
Recently, a cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars caught fire while being transported from Germany to Rhode Island. While it was a relief that the crew members were safely rescued from the ship, the same cannot be said for the estimated 4000 vehicles aboard the cargo ship (Felicity Ace). The huge fire likely engulfed…
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Fires At Industrial Sites
Within a short span of 1 week, there were 2 large fires that occurred at industrial sites. The first one took place on 21 Jan 2022 at Gul Lane, where the fire was about the size of a football field and utilized 20 emergency vehicles from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and 70 firefighters…
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Log4J Advisory From CSA
In a follow-up to the previous post, the “Log4j” software flaw has taken on renewed urgency and importance with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) upgrading the alert level, as well as holding emergency meetings with all government agencies which oversee Singapore’s 11 critical information infrastructure (CII) sectors. In addition, the agency has urged…
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Software Flaw
Over the weekend, companies and governments around the world found themselves vulnerable to malicious actors and are racing to fix a software flaw, that if left unchecked, allows hackers full access to web servers without the need for a password. This means that everyone and anyone is able to access networks and servers where they…
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Mapletree Settlement
2 years back in 2019, Hong Kong saw months of protests against what citizens perceived to be China interference in its politics. What began as peaceful protests ultimately turned violent, with clashes often between protesters and the police. Public properties such as MTR stations, schools, government buildings were vandalized and even private properties weren’t spared…
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Fire At La Taperia
Just as Singapore started to let 5 vaccinated diners from different households to gather at restaurants and eateries, a fire broke out at La Taperia, a Spanish restaurant under the Les Amis Group, at Shaw Centre in Orchard. As a result, lunch bookings at the restaurant had to be cancelled and shoppers had to be…
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Reddoorz Data Breach
Reddoorz was fined $74,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) for the massive data breach of 5.9 million customer data records in 2020. Data such as customer’s name, date of birth, contact number, email address and so on were compromised during the breach. The explanation given by Reddoorz that it failed to manage its…