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Unnecessary directive
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/04/2023
» Re: "Army, cops pressed to nab hacker", & "AWOL hacker sparks outcry", (BP, April 11& 12).
Protect our national data
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/04/2023
» Last week, a hacker who went by the name "9Near" did not release the data on 55 million Thais as he had threatened.
Data privacy needs boost
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/04/2023
» A hacker who goes by the name "9near" is threatening to publish the personal data of some 55 million Thai citizens on a dark web data-breach site called BreachForum at 4pm today.
It's funding abuse
News, Postbag, Published on 09/11/2022
» Re: "NBTC to decide on World Cup funding", (BP, Nov 8).
Thai 3Rs secret to handling US, China
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/07/2022
» Recent visits by the foreign ministers of China and the US created lots of buzz among the Thai public and diplomatic community regarding the direction of Thai foreign policy. Many questions were raised but no satisfactory answers were given.
Get ahead of cybercrime
News, Editorial, Published on 15/02/2022
» The much needed Personal Data Protection Act -- which has been delayed for two years -- will be mandated by June. It's part of the government's pledge to boost cyber security in Thailand but a large theft of data from the Thai University Central Admission System (TCAS) earlier this month has done little to inspire confidence that authorities will actually get on top of this growing threat anytime soon.
Medical mishaps
News, Postbag, Published on 04/05/2019
» Re: "Asking for too much", (PostBag, May 2).
Social media the theatre of 'Information World War'
News, Published on 19/12/2018
» A year ago, in his annual New Year's resolution post, Mark Zuckerberg pledged to spend 2018 fixing Facebook by addressing foreign manipulation, election interference and other threats. He and other tech leaders should probably renew that vow for 2019, and 2020, and possibly every year after that.
Update the computer law
News, Editorial, Published on 18/04/2018
» If events over the past two weeks do not convince the government to write an actual law covering computer fraud, maybe nothing will. The first unfortunate event was to threaten a Chiang Mai magazine editor with a computer crime charge over something that had nothing to do with computers (or crime, come to that). The second was the reluctant admission by the country's second mobile phone company of security misbehaviour, putting tens of thousands of customers at risk. That is not a crime.
Type softly when wielding power within cyberspace
News, Published on 29/01/2018
» In the wake of the biggest protests Iran has seen since the 2009 Green Movement, Iranian hackers have moved back into the spotlight. A report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in early January 2018 details how Iran has been building and deploying its capabilities. In the past decade, Iran has become one of the most aggressive states to wield offensive cyber capabilities, both at home and abroad. Part of Tehran's strategy has been to use hackers detached from the state as proxies.