ST Stop Scams webinar: Scam victims include lawyers, professors, senior civil servants
SINGAPORE – Anyone can fall victim to a scam, regardless of how well-educated or digitally savvy they are. Recalling how a lawyer almost lost the whole sum of $521,000 in a loan scam, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police Aileen Yap, assistant director of the Singapore Police Force’s Anti-Scam Command, noted that senior civil servants and […]
ST Stop Scams webinar: What agencies and individuals are doing to tackle the scourge of scams
SINGAPORE – Before the Anti-Scam Centre was set up in Singapore, banks took an average of 14 to 60 days just to freeze a bank account, said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Aileen Yap at The Straits Times Stop Scams webinar on Wednesday (May 25). “By the time, they (the banks) receive the letter from us, more […]
SM Teo Chee Hean at the Cyber Youth Singapore Re-Launch
Cybersecurity is key to a sustainable digital future. Most of you here are digital natives and are well-aware of the benefits that digitalisation brings. In the last years, in particular, this has been reinforced many times over. Working from home, or indeed anywhere, learning new skills, staying in touch with our friends, catching up on […]
Non-profit Cyber Youth Singapore to offer volunteers for SAF’s new digital defence scheme
SINGAPORE – All male members of Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS), a non-profit organisation, will be encouraged to volunteer to spend their national service as digital specialists in the Singapore Armed Forces. The length of their service will double from two years to four if they are selected by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). They will work […]
Student Volunteer & Recognition Programme Awards Ceremony 2020
The second edition of the Student Volunteer & Recognition Programme (SVRP) Awards Ceremony was held on 24 March 2021 to recognise student volunteers for their contributions to the cybersecurity community. In 2020, close to 100 student volunteers in the SVRP contributed more than 9,000 hours of volunteering to the cybersecurity community.
Ensign, AISP and CYS collaborate to grow young cyber security talent in Singapore
Ensign InfoSecurity, the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP), and Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS), have signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to provide more targeted skill-appropriate training and development opportunities for students in Singapore. In an effort to groom youths who are interested in cyber security and who might consider pursuing a career in cyber […]