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The Centre For Cybersecurity Institute helps individuals and companies acquire effective cyber defence skills through industry-relevant and real-world cybersecurity training.

On 13 August Apple sent alerts to iPhone users in 110 countries, telling them their phone had been targeted by spyware. ...
14/08/2026

On 13 August Apple sent alerts to iPhone users in 110 countries, telling them their phone had been targeted by spyware. The alert is real. It is not a scam message.

It reads: "Apple detected a mercenary spyware attack targeted at your iPhone. There are actions you can take now to protect your data and device."

Here is the part that catches people out. An urgent security warning on your lock screen is exactly what a phishing scam looks like, so a real one is easy to dismiss and a fake one is easy to believe. Three checks tell them apart:

1. Apple sends the same notice by email and shows it when you sign in to your Apple Account. Check it there, not through the message.
2. A genuine alert never asks you for a password, a verification code, or payment.
3. It points you towards help. A scam never does.

If you receive one, switch on Lockdown Mode in your iPhone settings. Apple says it has yet to see a case where a device was hacked while Lockdown Mode was enabled.

Being targeted is not a judgement on you, and it is not something to keep quiet about. If it happens on a phone you also use for work, tell whoever looks after security where you work.

Have a read of how we train teams to handle alerts like this here: https://www.centreforcybersecurity.com/courses/businesses?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=practical-defence&utm_content=20260814-apple-spyware-notification

Source: TechCrunch, 13 August 2026.

If a message asks you for the code that was just sent to you, that is the scam.The police flagged fake Telegram messages...
13/08/2026

If a message asks you for the code that was just sent to you, that is the scam.

The police flagged fake Telegram messages carrying GST Voucher graphics and a link to check whether you qualify. The page asks for your mobile number, your name and your NRIC, and then for the Telegram verification code you have just received. That code is what opens the account. Handing it over hands over the account.

Three checks worth keeping: the Ministry of Finance has no Telegram channel and will not message you there, a real government page ends in .gov.sg, and a verification code is never shared with anyone, for any reason.

Once an account is taken, the phishing links go out to that person's own contacts, which is why turning on Two-Step Verification in Telegram is worth the two minutes. More GST Voucher payouts land through August, so this one is still going around.

Follow us for the next scam breakdown, and report anything you are unsure about to ScamShield on 1799.

Source: Singapore Police Force advisory, 15 July 2026.

If you have ruled out cybersecurity because you do not code, this one is for you.Much of the work is judgement. Noticing...
12/08/2026

If you have ruled out cybersecurity because you do not code, this one is for you.

Much of the work is judgement. Noticing the detail that does not fit, following a process without panicking, explaining a risk in plain words so somebody actually acts on it. Coding helps in some roles, but it is not the door in.

75% of graduates who secured cyber roles had no prior IT background.

Read how CCK+ starts from zero at centreforcybersecurity.com, and send this to the person who counted themselves out.

On Tuesday 4 August we kicked off our inaugural Industry Learning Mentorship Programme (ILMP) with AiSP, at their office...
06/08/2026

On Tuesday 4 August we kicked off our inaugural Industry Learning Mentorship Programme (ILMP) with AiSP, at their office in Punggol Digital District.

Our graduates finish with the technical skills and the certificates. For a mid-career switcher, the harder part is building a network in an industry you have only just joined, and knowing who to ask. The ILMP was created as a bridge to those connections.

All 11 mentors volunteered six months of their time. Every pair was matched deliberately. Mentees rated themselves against 26 performance statements from the SWDA and IMDA skills frameworks and set out what they wanted to work on, and mentors shared their strengths and their reasons for signing up. From here the pairs meet monthly on their own, working through the Learning Framework together.

A warm thank you to Terence Siau, Director of AiSP, for building this programme with us and hosting the evening, and to Gerald Tan Zi Ping of AVODAH People Solutions, who facilitated the session and will guide our pairs across all six months.

To CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore for their support of the ILMP. To Tun Leng Lee of CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre and Tracy from NTUC's e2i for taking the time to join us.

To the AiSP review panel who helped bring our mentors together: Alex Lim, Garion Kong, Adrian Oey, Delaney Ng, and Ramesh Moosa.

And a big thank you to the 11 mentors who volunteered to journey with our mentees:

• Andy Wang, Managing Director at SMBC • Christophe Hamchin, Program Delivery Lead at Telstra Singapore • Christopher Lek, Director of Cyber Security at Nanyang Technological University • CJ Low, Field CISO at Cisco Systems • Dan Tinsley, CEO of DTN Advisory • Eric Wong, Director of Cyber Operations and Technologies at Synapxe • Frenky Tjioe, Senior Advisor at Evren • Jimmy Leong, Graduate Talent Lead and Pro Service Consultant at Lenovo • Leong Sing Meng, Senior Manager and Privacy Champion at SAS Institute • Scott Lee, Head of Cybersecurity at Hong Leong Finance • Tan Tiong Choon, CISO at SGX Group

Your non-technical career is not a gap to explain away. In cybersecurity, it is often the edge.A lot of security work is...
01/08/2026

Your non-technical career is not a gap to explain away. In cybersecurity, it is often the edge.

A lot of security work is about understanding process, risk and people, then translating all of it into plain language a business can act on. If you have spent years in finance, audit, operations, compliance or a customer-facing role, you already do the hard part. The technical foundation is the shorter, teachable part that comes after.

Most people who move into cyber governance, risk and audit roles were never programmers. They are careful thinkers who learned the tools on top of judgement they already had.

If that sounds like you, the path is more open than it looks. Read how CCK+ builds it at centreforcybersecurity.com.

If someone is selling you an NDP ticket, that is the scam.National Day tickets are balloted through Singpass and are str...
31/07/2026

If someone is selling you an NDP ticket, that is the scam.

National Day tickets are balloted through Singpass and are strictly not for sale, so any price at all, twenty dollars or two hundred, puts you outside the official system. The parade is on 9 August and the next preview show is on 1 August, so these messages are going round right now.

Follow us for the next scam breakdown, and if a listing like this reaches you, report it on ScamShield, 1799.

24/07/2026

The first computer bug was a real moth, and cybersecurity grew up in the forty years that followed.

1947: a moth jams Harvard’s Mark II and gets taped into the logbook. 1971: Creeper roams the early network and Reaper is written to hunt it down, the first worm and the first antivirus. 1988: a student’s worm takes down about a tenth of the internet, and the clean-up creates the world’s first computer emergency response team.

From a moth, to a prank, to a mistake, to a profession that cannot hire fast enough. About 4.8 million security roles sit unfilled worldwide today, with Asia Pacific carrying the largest share (ISC2 workforce study).

Here is the part that matters if you are curious about this field: 75% of graduates who secured cyber roles had no prior IT background. Curiosity, not a computing degree, is the real starting point.

Save this for the next time someone asks how you ended up interested in cyber. Tap the link in bio to see how a beginner starts, then follow Centre For Cybersecurity Institute for the next Origins story.

Sources: the Mark II logbook (Smithsonian collection), documented Creeper and Reaper history, the 1988 Morris Worm case record, ISC2 workforce study.

A real government officer will never call to say you are under investigation and ask you to move your money.Two calm che...
24/07/2026

A real government officer will never call to say you are under investigation and ask you to move your money.

Two calm checks give it away. A genuine Singapore number does not start with 3 (SPF advisory, 19 July), and no real agency asks you to move money to a "safe account" to prove your innocence. If a call feels off, hang up and check on ScamShield 1799.

Follow us for the next scam breakdown, and send this to a parent or grandparent who might pick up that call.

The first computer bug was a real insect.In 1947, engineers at Harvard opened a misbehaving machine and found a moth cau...
16/07/2026

The first computer bug was a real insect.

In 1947, engineers at Harvard opened a misbehaving machine and found a moth caught in a relay. They taped it into the logbook and wrote, "first actual case of bug being found". The joke stuck. So did the work.

What most people do not know is what came next. In 1971, the first self-copying code hopped across the early network. Within months, someone wrote the first tool to hunt it down and delete it, and attack and defence have been trading moves ever since. By 1988, one runaway worm knocked out about a tenth of the connected machines in a day, and the response became the world's first computer emergency response team. That was the moment security stopped being a hobby and became a job.

Today that job is a whole profession, and it cannot hire fast enough.

From a moth, to a prank, to a mistake, to a career you could actually switch into. Is that move on your mind? Read how CCK+ works at centreforcybersecurity.com.

You may have heard about the Singapore Land Authority data breach. Here is the calm version, and one habit worth sharing...
15/07/2026

You may have heard about the Singapore Land Authority data breach. Here is the calm version, and one habit worth sharing with your family.

An old government test dataset, built in 1998, was accessed without authorisation. It turned out to hold the names, NRIC numbers and addresses of about 70,000 people.

The most important thing to know: a leaked NRIC is an identifier, not a password. It names you. It cannot, on its own, log in to your bank or move your money.

What tends to follow a breach is impersonation. Some people will get messages that claim to be from SLA, a bank or an agency, using the leaked details to sound real and rushing you to act. The details are real. The sender may not be.

So the habit is simple. Do not act on any unexpected message about the breach. Verify it yourself on the official website or ScamShield 1799, never the link in the message.

Send this to your family group chat. 💙

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