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SINGAPORE (July 17): Singapore is ranked 11th globally when it comes to locations with the most number of incidences caused by servers hosted in the country.

In fact, more than two million incidents which originated from servers located in Singapore were uncovered in the second quarter of 2019 alone, says Kaspersky, the cyber security solutions provider.

The report also found that a third of local users came close to being infected by local threats during this period.

In terms of web threats, Kaspersky detected 1.3 million different Internet-borne cyber threats on the computers of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) participants in Singapore, with 12.8% of users attacked by web-borne threats in 2Q19.

Local threats include worms and file viruses — which account for the majority of such incidents. This, according to Kaspersky Lab analysts, illustrates how frequently users are attacked by...(click on link for full story on theedgesingapore.com)
 

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