Organizations seek new ways to protect their expanding attack surface, maintain stability
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – a global cybersecurity leader, warns of spiraling risk to digital infrastructure and remote workers as threat actors increase their rate of attack on organizations and individuals.
“Attackers are always working to increase their victim count and profit, whether through quantity or effectiveness of attacks,” said Tony Lee, Head of Consulting, Hong Kong and Macau, at Trend Micro. “The breadth and depth of our global threat intelligence allows us to identify shifts in how malicious actors target their victims across the world. Our latest research shows that while Trend Micro threat detections rose 42% year-on-year in 2021 to over 94 billion, they shrank in some areas as attacks became more precisely targeted.”
Ransomware attackers are shifting their focus to critical businesses and industries more likely to pay, and double extortion tactics ensure that they are able to profit. Ransomware-as-a-service offerings have opened the market to attackers with limited technical knowledge – but also given rise to more specialization, such as initial access brokers who are now an essential part of the cybercrime supply chain.
Threat actors are also getting better at exploiting human error to compromise cloud infrastructure and remote workers. Trend Micro Cloud App Security (CAS) detected and prevented 25.7 million email threats in 2021 compared to 16.7 million in 2020, with the volume of blocked phishing attempts nearly doubling over the period. Research shows home workers are often prone to take more risks than those in the office, which makes phishing a particular risk.
In the cloud, incorrectly configured systems continue to plague organizations. Services such as Amazon Elastic Block Store and Microsoft Azure’s Virtual Machine were among the services that had relatively high misconfiguration rates. Trend Micro also found that Docker REST APIs are frequently misconfigured, exposing them to attacks from groups like TeamTNT that deploy crypto-mining malware on affected systems.
Business email compromise (BEC) saw detections drop 11%. However, CAS blocked a higher percentage of advanced BEC emails, which could be detected only by comparing the writing style of the attacker with that of the intended sender. These attacks comprised 47% of all BEC attempts in 2021 versus 23% in 2020.
While 2021 was a record year for new vulnerabilities, Trend Micro research shows that 22% of the exploits sold in the cybercrime underground last year were over three years old. Patching old vulnerabilities remains an essential task alongside monitoring for new threats to prevent cyber-attacks and ensure strong security posture.
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – Today, IX Asia Indexes Company Limited (“IX Asia Indexes”) announced the establishment of the IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee.
Tokenization is the process of converting rights or a unit of asset ownership into a digital token on a blockchain. It can be applied to regulated financial instruments such as equities and bonds, physical assets such as real estate and art. Key benefits that could be enabled by tokenization include increased liquidity, reduced cost, faster settlement, better compliance and increased transparency. Tokenization has the potential to transform the market by opening investments to a wider pool of investors and facilitating the innovation of new product offerings. Tokens can also be traded on appropriate secondary markets.
The establishment of the IX Asia Tokenisation Advisory Committee (“Advisory Committee”) is to help us to pursue the goal and vision to formulate a standard for global tokenization framework in a complaint and transparent way. The key roles of the Advisory Committee is to formulate the guideline and reference for tokenization in terms of infrastructure, business financial stability, sustainability, internal control and classification. The Advisory Committee is comprised of industry recognised leaders from blockchain consultancy, sustainable projects and field in Art industry.
The initial focus of the Advisory Committee will be mainly on green, public projects and art tokens. Covid 19 is a wakeup call for our world and shows us that something needs to be done sooner than later. IX Asia Indexes sees the current challenges looming with green and sustainability-linked projects and investments to receive sustainable funding.
Today we are proud to welcome five members to this IX Asia Tokenisation Advisory Committee and thank them for their partnership. IX Asia Tokenisation Advisory Committee Dr. Henrietta Tsui-Leung, Founder and CEO of Ora-Ora Art group and President Emeritus of Hong Kong Art Gallery Association Ms. Angelina Kwan, Senior Advisor to the Board, HashKey Group Ms. Miranda Ching Yi Kwan, Director, Knowledge Solutions, SGS Hong Kong Limited Mr. Lance Morginn, President/Co-Founder/CCI, Blockchain Intelligence Group Ms. Irene OL Wong, Founder, IX Asia Indexes Company Limited
In order to optimise the implementation, a platform for token registration is planned to be made available before the end of this year. Tokens listed on the platform will be put in the universe for the future digital asset index constituents selection. International token identification number similar to the existing CUSSIP/ ISIN might be introduced in the registration system. IX Asia Indexes is also looking to introduce a roadmap for an alternative blockchain audit in the future.
The formation of working group will be announced in due course. Participants in the working group are dedicated to bring together their valuable insight, expertise and complementary industry experience.
The Advisory Committee is looking foward to working with the regulatory authorities in the future to make more meaningful impact.
For more details about IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee members, please refer to Appendix 1.
Appendix 1 IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee Member List
Dr. Henrietta Tsui-Leung Founder and CEO of Ora-Ora President Emeritus of Hong Kong Art Gallery Association
Dr. Henrietta Tsui-Leung is founder and CEO of Ora-Ora, a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery with global reach. Ora-Ora made history as the first gallery to present NFTs at Art Basel in Hong Kong in 2021. Henrietta believes in finding common ground and mutual benefit, and is at the nexus and forefront of art, finance and technology. She co-founded the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association in 2012, is co- founder of MetaKapital, enabling institutions to launch their presence in the Metaverse, and reaches millions of viewers and clients online through her Ora-Ora Live platform and new Colab retail venture. Henrietta has been studying Blockchains and their application in art since 2014, completing her PhD degree in Art Theory at Shanghai University in 2018. Her doctorate thesis was a Comparative Study on Art Finance Development between the East and the West. She is a Co-opted Member of the Sub-committee on Visual Arts under Advisory Committee on Arts Development in Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong, a Founding Patron of M+ Museum of Visual Culture, and an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation Hong Kong. Henrietta has been awarded with Top 100 Chinese Women Entrepreneurs and Collector of the Year by Xinhuanet in China.
Ms. Angelina Kwan, CPA, CA HashKey Group Senior Advisor to the Board
Angelina Kwan is the Senior Advisor to the Board of the HashKey Group, a regulated digital assets company. She has previously held Chief Operating Officer and Directorate positions with international digital asset exchanges, HKEX, Cantor Fitzgerald, the SFC, and other global financial services companies. She is also the Managing Director of Stratford Finance Limited, a consulting company focused on dealing with regulatory and operational issues in the financial services and digital assets sectors and advises brokerages, fund managers, and technology providers.
Angelina serves on a number of Hong Kong Government-appointed Boards, and charities including The Women’s Foundation; Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and a graduate of the University of Southern California. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University, LLB from HKU/Manchester Metropolitan University, and LLM from Harvard Law School.
Ms. Miranda Ching Yi Kwan SGS Hong Kong Limited Director, Knowledge Solutions
Miranda Kwan is currently the Director of Knowledge Solutions, SGS Hong Kong Limited with more than 20 years of management experience in the International Certification, Training and Sustainability Services. She is responsible for the overall strategy and business development of the division. Ms. Kwan holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemical Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Mr. Lance Morginn Blockchain Intelligence Group President / Co-Founder / CCI Lance is a President / Director / Co-Founder at the Blockchain Intelligence Group (“BIG”).
With over 20 years of industry experience in technology-based startups, Lance brings a vast and proven track record for growing and developing multi-million-dollar businesses from the ground-up. His background includes roles as Founder/CEO/Director in several publicly and privately traded companies.
In 1996, Lance founded Planet City Graphics, which won worldwide recognition and became a multi-million-dollar corporation within 18 months. He also founded Western Shores Interactive, which became a publicly listed company and reached a market cap of $400 million.
In addition to his business and technical acumen, Lance has a proven track record working with Asian companies and government entities. In 2000, he was recruited to work closely with China’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC). He assisted in the development of a secure network that permits the dissemination of information to State-owned business as well as businesses around the world.
In 2015, Lance leveraged his breadth of experience in business building and technology to co-found Blockchain Intelligence Group while setting the company’s strategy and vision.
Ms. Irene OL Wong Founder IX Asia Indexes Company Limited
Irene OL Wong, CPA, CGMA, is the Founder of IX Asia Indexes Company Limited and IX Fintech Group Limited, two companies specialized in financial products and trading (including digital assets), with award-winning Fintech platforms and solutions, such as the ixOption Platform and the ixCrypto Index. She has over 25 years’ experience in the finance industry doing hedge fund trading, indexing, and creating financial products.
Prior to founding IX Fintech Group and IX Asia Indexes Company, Irene served as Head of Trading at various global hedge funds, Head of the Hang Seng Index Company, and Senior Vice president of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Some of her achievements include the HKEX Stock Options Revamp Project, obtaining no-action relief on stock options products from the US and Taiwan SEC, FTSE/ Hang Seng Index Series project and executing a record number of contracts on the Hang Seng Index Options when she served as an open out-cry floor trader at Morgan Stanley during the 1997 Asian financial crisis . Between 2001 and 2003, Irene managed the operations and business development of the Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited. She is currently a member of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Fintech and Regtech task forces.
About IX Asia Indexes
IX Asia Indexes Company Limited (“IX Asia Indexes”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IX Fintech Group. Aiming to become one of the leading index compilers in Asia, its services in the areas of both real and digital assets cover index consultancy, index design, index calculation and dissemination, and index education. It is missioned to bring transparency and standardization to the digital asset and tokenisation world through building an investment-grade and rules-based benchmarks.
IX Asia Indexes launched the award winning ixCrypto Index (IXCI) in 2018, followed by two new Indexes ixBitcoin (IXBI) and ixEthereum (IXEI) Index to complete the ixCrypto Index Series in early 2021. They are currently available in 85 countries via Nasdaq and IX Asia Indexes Company data feed to Bloomberg, Reuters, banks institutions and information vendors. Real time index is disseminated every 15 second interval from Hong Kong Time 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.. An index advisory committee with representation from different industries to ensure the professionality and impartiality of the index methodologies and operations.
About IX Asia Indexes Advisory Committee To ensure the professionality and impartiality of the index methodologies and operations, IX Asia Indexes has established its index advisory committee with representation from different industries, including fund management, exchanges, brokerage, financial blockchain experts, crypto service providers, etc. The committee will meet at least quarterly to discuss matters relating to the IX Asia Indexes, including to review and to comment the data sources, methodologies, and operations of IX Asia Indexes, to provide guidance to the future development of new IX Asia Indexes and to handle other issues and decisions on an as-needed basis.
GRENOBLE, FRANCE – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – The progression of Teledyne e2v Semiconductors’ ultra-high density DDR4 memories continues, with news that flight models are now being shipped to key customers around the world. It signifies a major step forward in the ground-breaking project – after sampling successfully led to widespread design-in activity and adoption of this technology. Consequently, the company is now moving into the mass production phase, with the space-grade radiation-tolerant DDR4s being available.
With a 4GByte storage capacity, and dimensions of just 15mm x 20mm x 1.92mm, Teledyne e2v’s DDR4s exhibit a much higher storage density than competing solutions – taking up only half the PCB real estate, and almost an order of magnitude less volume. Maintaining elevated performance on an ongoing basis, they deliver data transfer speeds of 2.4GT/s.
Supplied in a multi-chip package (MCP) format, each Teledyne e2v DDR4T04G72 memory features expansive bus capabilities, where 64bits are assigned to data transfer and an additional 8bits for error correction. The DDR4T04G72 is an optimal companion for the company’s own Qormino® processors and they are also compatible with the vast majority of processors, SoCs and FPGAs from other vendors.
Thanks to their high reliability construction and high degree of radiation tolerance, these devices will be a pivotal resource for space-deployed edge computing platforms. Radiation testing and characterization conducted on these DDR4s show that their single event latch-up (SEL) threshold is greater than 60MeV.cm²/mg. Their single event upset (SEU) and single event function interrupt (SEFI) data also exceeds 60MeV.cm²/mg, and they have demonstrated resilience to 100krad total ionizing dose (TID).
Teledyne e2v’s DDR4s can be ordered in both industrial temperature range (-40°C to 105°C) and military temperature range (-55°C to 125°C), and up to NASA Level 1 (based on NASA EEE-INST-002 – Section M4 – PEMs). This will mean that a greater breadth of potential applications can be addressed.
“We are recognized as leading the way in elevated density radiation tolerant memory for space applications, and our technology has already been incredibly well received by the market. What differentiates us from the competition is the comprehensive and open data package we provide, giving clients everything they require to start their designs and complete them in the shortest possible timeframe, with all the background information and expert engineering support readily available,” states Thomas Guillemain, Marketing & Business Development Manager at Teledyne e2v. “The space industry is presented with an assured supply of compact, easy to interface memories that raise the performance benchmark. We are making great headway on the next stage of our roadmap, with other generations of even higher capacity devices currently in the pipeline.
About Teledyne e2v
Teledyne e2v’s innovations lead developments in healthcare, life sciences, space, transportation, defense and security and industrial markets. Teledyne e2v’s unique approach involves listening to the market and application challenges of customers and partnering with them to provide innovative standard, semi-custom or fully-custom solutions, bringing increased value to their systems.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – Premium Tutors is offering flexible hybrid tuition services – allowing both new or existing students to opt for either face-to-face , online lessons , or a hybrid of both with their preferred tutor amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a home tuition agency in Singapore, Premium Tutors offers one -to-one private home tuition for primary, secondary, JC and even tertiary students. The company has extended their services to online lessons via video conference calls. This is especially helpful amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and frequent update of restrictions, as lesson arrangements can be swapped out anytime. The trend of online tuition in Singapore allows for an increased flexibility for students to enhance their learning journey whilst juggling other commitments. With this, Premium Tutors offers the same personalised and quality education for both their online and offline lessons.
With an aim to provide well-rounded education and enrichment services , b esides academic tuition lessons, Premium Tutors hopes to develop students holistically by offering lessons in art, music, sports, coding and even conversational languages. Moreover, with t he company ’s quick turnaround time of 12 hours , students can be matched with a qualified tutor within a short notice. They also offer the option to replace the tutor at no additional cost, should their teaching styles not be suitable for the student.
With over 300 satisfied clients, Premium Tutors is an established home tuition agency founded by a dedicated team of educators. Founded in 2016, the company now has a comprehensive pool of over 10,000 qualified and experienced private tutors who can provide tuition services for all levels and subjects. Premium Tutors strives to provide students a holistic educational experience through flexible hybrid tuition services even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introduction of OLED+ category by Philips TV and Bowers & Wilkins is a game changer
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 –The award-winning new Philips OLED+ 4K UHD Android TV, the OLED936, is now available in Taiwan. The Philips OLED936 has already grabbed several major global awards, including iF Design and EISA 2021. This screen delivers unprecedented picture and sound quality and immersion, thanks to the exclusive Bowers & Wilkins soundbar, four-sided Ambilight, HDR10+ support, P5 Intelligent Dual Picture Engine, an astonishingly-lifelike 120hz refresh rate, and more. Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos offer cinematic vision and sound – and there’s also eARC for ultimate HDMI 2.1 audio fidelity. The soundbar’s 3.1.2 channels fill any room with spellbinding soundtracks, thunderous effects and crystal-clear dialogue.
The best technology guarantees the best picture and sound
Experience upgraded picture and audio quality that beats anything you’ve seen or heard before. The latest high-performance OLED panels gives a 20% increase in peak light, and the twin-chip, P5 Intelligent Dual Picture Engine reaches new heights – with better sharpness, more accurate colors and skin tones and better contrast for all sources. Unlike most competing TVs, all major HDR formats are supported, so this TV won’t disappoint users with a poor-quality picture. Gamers will love four-sided Ambilight with the most responsive low-latency action from VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), Freesync Premium and G-Sync compatibility – plus Fast Motion Clarity mode, which gives ultra-realistic smoothness, with increased sharpness but without the usual artifacts and flickering.
Classy European design
It’s a TV that looks amazing even when it’s switched off! Enjoy European design with authentic materials including Kvadrat cloth, glass and metal, steel micro-mesh protection, and a premium remote control featuring the ultimate tactile sensation of a sustainable Muirhead leather wrap.
Ready for anything, with key industry standard support
The Philips OLED936’s DTS Play-Fi wireless audio streaming technology, brings the best wireless audio ecosystem to any home. This lets users control all their DTS Play-Fi-enabled products via Wi-Fi, and stream music simultaneously, bringing an unprecedented sound revolution to the home entertainment experience. The OLED936 also features improved sound quality and storage space. The storage space has been upgraded to 4GB, and the storage space for applications, files and software has been doubled to 32GB, beating the industry standard.
TP Vision Europe B.V. (‘TP Vision’) is registered in the Netherlands, with its head office in Amsterdam. TP Vision is a wholly owned company of TPV Technology Limited (‘TPV’), which is one of the world’s leading monitor and TV manufacturers.
TP Vision is a consumer electronics key player in TV and audio entertainment. TP Vision concentrates on developing, manufacturing and marketing Philips-branded TV sets (Europe, Russia, Middle East, South America, India and selected countries in Asia-Pacific) and Philips-branded audio products (Globally) under trademark license by Koninklijke Philips N.V. We combine the strong Philips brand with our product development and design expertise, operational excellence, and industry footprint of TPV. We believe in creating products that offer a superior audio and visual experience for consumers.
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