Tag: World Wide Web

Have we become so lulled by our success that we have allowed high standards to lapse? And worse still, that we have gone soft on ourselves and the public service, failing to hold senior people accountable when things go wrong. It has not been easy, but we have always strived to maintain high standards and improve upon them. After the "Anonymous" attacks on government IT systems in 2013, we established the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. We benchmarked ourselves against the best in the world for reliability and service standards. In the case of the SingHealth cyber attack, senior officers were held responsible and disciplined. When something goes wrong, the leader of the organisation, be he the minister, permanent secretary or CEO, has to take responsibility and put things right. Mr Ting Kheng Siong, writing in Zaobao on Feb 3, is right to caution against creating a public service culture where "Doing more means making more mistakes; doing less means making fewer mistakes; and if we do nothing we will make no mistake". Singapore got here because our pioneers dared to take risks. That has to be in our DNA, carried forward from generation to generation - to always strive to do better for Singaporeans and for Singapore.

Who are these actors and what are the consequences of their cyberattacks? These are some of the questions that Professor Nils Weidmann and his research group "Communication, Networks and Contention" at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz intend to address through their German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research project entitled "A New Political Weapon? To successfully carry out their research, Professor Nils Weidmann and his project group members will collaborate with experts in Internet measurement from the University of California, San Diego, USA. Nils Weidmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz and was previously a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg - an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Konstanz. Nils Weidmann's project "A New Political Weapon? Cyberattacks in Non-Democratic Regimes" will be funded by the DFG with EUR 430,000 for three years beginning on 1 September 2018. Cyberattacks in Non-Democratic Regimes" receives DFG funding. - Principal investigator Professor Nils Weidmann and his research group "Communication, Networks and Contention" will collaborate with experts from the University of California, San Diego, USA. - Project will map global patterns of cyberattacks, evaluate the relationship between these attacks and more traditional forms of contention, and identify the consequences of the attacks. by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.