Candidates should consider engaging a vendor to manage the cyber security of their election campaign systems. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - With election campaign activities increasingly being conducted online, the Elections Department has issued an advisory to candidates and political parties on potential cyber threats, and the preventive measures they can take.
This is not the first time that ELD has published an advisory relating to cyber-security issues and elections,The latest advisory includes more details on potential cyber threats, and puts forth more suggestions of the precautionary measures to take. Potential cyber threats include data theft or breaches, website defacement, distributed denial of service, ransomware, exploitation of vulnerabilities in IT systems, compromised or fake social media accounts, insider threats and social engineering attacks like phishing, vishing – voice phishing – or baiting.
Accounts related to the campaign should have passwords with minimum length and complexities instituted, and have multi-factor authentication implemented. Changes to the guidelines include more details of the obligations under the PDPA’s Data Protection Provisions that parties and candidates are required to comply with.
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