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A Facebook user shared his personal experience on a new scam tactic. He recounted how his SingTel mobile number was strangely terminated without his consent, and this was due to a hacker trying to takeover his number. These hackers were using a scam called SimSwap.

Readers of Mothership.sg encountered a problem that seemed to be their website being hacked. The website had displayed 'hang on, mothershit is getting its shit together hahhahahahah'.

The National University of Singapore has been hit with fresh cyber attacks, which have compromised the computers of more than 2 employees, including one who was working on a Ministry of Defence funded project.

At 9.05AM today, an internet forummer posted a photo of CTC Travel website, which had allegedly been hacked by a group known as Anonymous Arabe. CTC is a popular local travel agency.

Apple iPhones are now vulnerable to a new crashing hack that makes the phones turn off and unusable.

A 32 year old Russian Singapore Management University Juris Doctorate student unlawfully deleted his and 18 other student's exam scripts when he realised he would fare badly in the exams. Georgy Kotsaga believed that by deleting the scripts, he would get to retake the examinations. Fortunately, SMU's IT systems made real time back ups for all examination scripts and everything was recovered. Worried that his GPA would fall below 3.0, Kotsaga bought a USB keylogger from Sim Lim Square and planted it on desktop computers in the professors' respective classrooms.

Apple is removing hundreds of apps from the App Store after discovering that they contain a malicious program called XcodeGhost. Apple has declined to say exactly how many apps slipped past its review process, but Chinese security firm Qihoo360 Technology claims to have uncovered a total of 344 apps affected by XcodeGhost.

According to the Ministry of Defence (Mindef), it now wields a software that can remotely disable cameras, Wi-Fi connection, and microphones in mobile devices, as well as wipe out their data and track their locations.

The personal and bank information of 240 Nanyang Polytechnic alumni has been stolen and leaked online. Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao reported on Monday that one of the alumni affected, Mr Ho, was informed of the security breach last week through a letter from the school.