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20 February 2024
Provost's Chair Professor Mohan Kankanhalli and Professor Anthony Tung caution against social media oversharing, stressing the risks of divulging excessive personal information, especially about children. They call for heightened awareness and education to combat these dangers, underlining the need to verify content and employ technology for fraud detection.

Provost's Chair Professor Mohan Kankanhalli and Professor Anthony Tung caution against social media oversharing, stressing the risks of divulging excessive personal information, especially about children. They call for heightened awareness and education to combat these dangers, underlining the need to verify content and employ technology for fraud detection.

8world, 19 February 2024

8 February 2024
Associate Professor Kan Min Yen emphasises that Southeast Asia's regulations are less detailed compared to the EU's, citing the region's diverse digital landscape and emerging infrastructure as reasons why strict enforcement might be challenging.

Associate Professor Kan Min Yen emphasises that Southeast Asia's regulations are less detailed compared to the EU's, citing the region's diverse digital landscape and emerging infrastructure as reasons why strict enforcement might be challenging.

Deutsche Welle, 8 February 2024

5 January 2024
Sometime between 2019 and 2020, a curious phenomenon began surfacing on Signal, FaceTime, and four other mobile messaging applications: someone could ring a person up and listen in to the audio of their surroundings — all without the receiving party picking up the call.
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29 December 2023
Highlighting the escalating sophistication of fraudsters in their tactics, detecting fraud presents a formidable challenge due to the sheer volume of legitimate transactions, as emphasised by Professor Hahn Jungpil.

Highlighting the escalating sophistication of fraudsters in their tactics, detecting fraud presents a formidable challenge due to the sheer volume of legitimate transactions, as emphasised by Professor Hahn Jungpil.

Business Times, 29 December 2023

29 December 2023
Professor Jungpil Hahn underscores the need for the public to exercise scepticism and verify information sources amidst the rising threat of deepfake technology for spreading misinformation.

Professor Hahn Jungpil underscores the need for the public to exercise scepticism and verify information sources amidst the rising threat of deepfake technology for spreading misinformation.

Zaobao, 29 December 2023

27 December 2023
Congratulations to four NUS Computing PhD students who were awarded the Google PhD Fellowship in 2023. Started in 2009, the Google PhD Fellowship programme was set up to recognise outstanding graduates with exceptional work in Computer Science related disciplines or promising research areas.
Four NUS Computing PhD students receive the Google PhD Fellowship
11 December 2023
NUS Computing Assoc Prof Prateek Saxena, Asst Prof Trevor Carlson and PhD student Jason Zhijingcheng Yu delve deeper into CAPSTONE, an exciting new technology with the potential to make our computers much more secure.
24 November 2023
CIDeX 2023 is held from 22 to 24 November at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing. It is organised by the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), and supported by iTrust/SUTD and the National Cybersecurity R&D Laboratory (NCL).

CIDeX 2023 is held from 22 to 24 November at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing. It is organised by the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), and supported by iTrust[1]/SUTD and the National Cybersecurity R&D Laboratory (NCL).

MINDEF Singapore, 24 November 2023 

27 September 2023
Debugging is the bane of many a computer programmer’s existence — a task that’s both immensely costly and time-consuming. For a start, locating the source of a software error, or bug, is “like finding a needle in a haystack,” says Abhik Roychoudhury, a Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at NUS Computing.
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11 August 2023
11 Aug 2023 — The GreyHats Capture the Flag (CTF) 2023 competition was successfully held from 15 to 16 July at NUS COM3 Multipurpose Hall. This is a competition jointly organised by NUS Greyhats, an information security student interest group and National Cybersecurity R&D lab (NCL), a research lab dedicated to the advancement of cybersecurity in the Singapore ecosystem.
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28 March 2023
28 March 2023 – Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor Ooi Beng Chin from the NUS School of Computing has been elected as Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Engineering, Singapore (SAEng) in February 2023. The SAEng serves as a think tank on engineering-related public policy and steers initiatives in the areas of strategic importance to Singapore so as to meet the challenges of the new millennium.
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28 November 2022
28 November 2022 - For two days in mid-November 2022, the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing was transformed into a command centre for the inaugural Critical Infrastructure Defence Exercise (CIDeX) organised by the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), the 4th service of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
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16 November 2022

The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) organised the inaugural Critical Infrastructure Defence Exercise (CIDeX) from 15 to 16 November at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing.

MINDEF. 16 November 2022 

10 November 2022
8 November 2022 – NUS students have once again proven that strong computing skills coupled with the intellect for creative problem-solving are a potent formula for success.
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23 November 2021

Goh, a former MyRepublic mobile subscriber, was one of nearly 79,400 other customers who had their personal data potentially accessed by hackers when the telco's third-party servers were compromised on Aug 29 this year. He had ported his mobile number to MyRepublic to take advantage of its cheaper rates, but has since ported back to his previous telco after the breach.

Data, including scanned copies of both sides of National Registration Identity Cards (NRICs) were potentially exposed in the MyRepublic breach. The information had been used to verify the identity of customers applying for their mobile services.

The Business Times, 23 November 2021

18 November 2021

By now it’s highly likely that the camera in your smartphone has become the primary (or even only) way that you take pictures. Today’s advanced smartphone camera setups are capable of much more than snapping scenery or selfies, though. Did you know they can reveal the location of hidden spy cameras?

This new ability is thanks to the addition of a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor to many new models. The sensor helps a smartphone analyze depth information about a scene that’s being photographed.

HelpNetSecurity, 23 November 2021
TechRadar, 20 November 2021
Forbes, 19 November 2021
The Register, 18 November, 2021

28 October 2021
28 October 2021 – Members from the NUS Greyhats, an information security interest group at NUS Computing, recently won the Singapore Cyber Conquest (SCC) 2021.
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22 October 2021
Consider a programmer sitting at her desk, trying to fix an error in a software system. First, she had to determine what was causing the problem and trace its source to a specific location within the programme’s code.
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9 August 2021

Twenty-six-year-old Cherlynn Cha, born and raised in Singapore, thought cybersecurity was "so cool" as a teenager. "The good guys get the bad guys," she said, "or help each other using cool, cutting-edge technology."

Cha attended the National University of Singapore and studied computer science with a focus in cybersecurity, where she learned "the theory behind all of the things we take for granted." She first got a security job in a consulting firm, where she worked in identity and access management, then she worked at a bank, as a security operations center analyst before landing her current job, as a "threat hunter" at ExpressVPN.

Tech Republic, 9 August 2021