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Robin Hicks is the editor of Asian Security Review, having joined Alphabet Media in February 2009. He manages the content of the print and online ASR products, and has a hand in their editorial direction. A journalist since 2000,
Robin’s first job was as a reporter on the marketing trade title Media & Marketing Europe based in London. He then became special reports editor of Haymarket’s Campaign magazine, where he introduced new reports on sustainability, sport and digital marketing and interviewed a broad mix of characters from British Sky Broadcasting CEO James Murdoch to England footballer Rio Ferdinand.
Robin moved to Asia in 2006 to edit the Southeast Asian edition of Haymarket’s Media magazine. He has freelanced for publications including Power, TV Asia and Business Times. Robin is a long-suffering follower of West Ham United FC.
18 March 2010 | Feature
Why no one has ever escaped from Changi Prison
The doors of Singapore’s maximum security correctional facility were unlocked for Robin Hicks and Kelly Ng to find out how technology has made one of Asia’s most high-tech jails more secure and efficient.
8 February 2010 | News
Social media security risks exposed
Twitterers with Facebook pages and LinkedIn accounts beware. The volume of spam and malware sent via social networking sites increased by 70 per cent last year, with MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter all falling victim to rising levels of malicious activity in 2009. Of them all, Facebook poses the biggest risk to security, according to a survey by cyber security firm Sophos.
8 February 2010 | News
Interpol rebuffs calls for internet police
Calls for the creation of an internet police force to tackle unprecedented levels of cyber crime have been rebuffed by the director of IT at Interpol in an interview with Asian Security Review.
8 September 2009 | News
New US cyber security detection system raises privacy concerns
A new version of a computer intrusion detection system being developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns from advocacy groups over privacy and the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the development of the software. The new system, known as Einstein 3, can reportedly read email as well as its original function, to detect malicious software.
11 August 2009 | News
US cybersecurity guidlines under attack
A new set of guidelines on cybersecurity released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States has fallen short of the protection needed for government systems, a cybersecurity analysis group has warned.
15 July 2009 | News
Singapore stress tests home forces with simulated terrorist attack
Singapore’s homeland security forces have been “stress tested” by a simulated terrorist attack similar to last November’s attacks on Mumbai, India’s commercial capital.
2 July 2009 | News
South Korea to bolster cyber defences
The government of South Korea has hatched plans to launch a cyberwarfare agency by 2012 in preparation for what it sees as a growing threat of attack from neighbouring North Korea.
2 July 2009 | News
UK launches cybersecurity agency
One month after the United States government announced that it was to appoint a ‘cyber czar’, the United Kingdom is following suit with the formation of a cybersecurity agency.
2 July 2009 | News
BCP ignorance slows Asia's response to H1N1
A lack of awareness of business continuity planning (BCP) is hampering the efforts of the private sector to keep productivity levels high as the H1N1 virus spreads in Asia, according to an expert in the field.
2 July 2009 | News
Michael Jackson's death triggers spam attacks
The death of pop legend Michael Jackson has triggered a swathe of attacks by internet fraudsters attempting to capture computer users’ email addresses to use for future spam campaigns.
10 June 2009 | News
Obama campaign guru: hackers to drive web evolution
Scott Goodstein, the architect of United States President Barack Obama’s online election campaign, told delegates at a conference today (Wednesday 10 June 2009) that hackers will drive the evolution of new media and the internet.
10 June 2009 | News
Expert calls for mobile workforce infosecurity strategy
Governments need to develop strategies to bolster cyber security as their workforces become more mobile, an information security expert has urged.
19 May 2009 | News
London police chief: vendors must raise their game for Olympics
The Superintendent of London’s largest police force has laid down the gauntlet for CCTV vendors to come up with better surveillance technology ahead of the 2012 Olympics Games.
6 May 2009 | News
Crime plummets as Filipinos flock to watch Pacquiao
Police in the Philippines saw crime levels plummet to near zero when Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao fought Ricky Hatton last Sunday (3rd May 2009), aided by the deployment of free live screening facilities.
6 May 2009 | News
Hacker infiltrates Obama's Twitter account
A hacker has claimed to have broken into the internal administration system of the popular social networking site Twitter, giving him access to the accounts of millions of users - including Barack Obama and Britney Spears.
4 May 2009 | News
US cyber warfare policy under attack
A study by the National Research Council has criticised the United States government for lacking a comprehensive policy on how and when will engage in cyber warfare against other nations.
30 April 2009 | News
Security fears slow e-complaint uptake for ICAC
Public concerns over internet security have made Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) reluctant to introduce an e-complaint system, the government body has revealed to Asian Security Review.
29 April 2009 | News
Swine flu panic exploited by spammers
Spammers are exploiting the panic caused by the swine flu virus to install malicious code on unsuspecting victims’ computers, flood email inboxes with spam and lure people into clicking links that collect their email addresses.
22 April 2009 | News
Social engineering scams threaten web security: AVG
Between eight and 14 million web users in the US are exposed to social engineering scams such as hoax Facebook pages or rogue security applications that encourage surfers to download malicious software to their PCs, according to a report from security vendor AVG.
21 April 2009 | News
CCTV planned for Manila's international schools
The leadership of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) have announced plans to install additional closed circuit televisions (CCTV) in international schools in time for the beginning of term in June this year.
21 April 2009 | News
CCTV surveillance boosted in Bangkok
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will install 10,000 additional closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras intended to monitor traffic and crime in major areas throughout the troubled Thai captial, according to BMA City Clerk Pongsak Semson.
17 April 2009 | News
Data security of Singapore schools exposed
The data security of schools in Singapore came into question this week when an online community group Singapore Security Meetup Group (SSMG) went onto the web sites of various schools and came away with personal information, such as addresses and identity card and telephone numbers of staff and students.
16 April 2009 | News
Manila bomb threat prompts heightened securty
Police have tightened security at the Manila City Hall after an informant reported to authorities a supposed threat to bomb the building.
16 April 2009 | News
Hong Kong tax office airs cloud security concerns
Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue has voiced concerns over the security of using cloud computing services to manage tax payer information.
16 April 2009 | News
Security threats in Islamabad hit trade
The business and economic activities in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad ground to a halt last week amid repeated security threats.
15 April 2009 | News
Surge in cyber criminality in 2008: Symantec
Malicious activity online is continuing to grow at a frightening pace, according to a new report by internet security firm Symantec.
15 April 2009 | News
Hong Kong police staff up to fight cyber crime
Hong Kong police is tripling the number of officers dedicated to tackling cyber crime.
9 April 2009 | News
CCTV effectiveness system unveiled
A new system to improve the effectiveness of CCTV, known as a gaze-tracking camera system, has been developed at the Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey.
9 April 2009 | News
Spammers exploit Italy earthquake
The earthquake that struck Italy on Monday (April 6th 2009) has been exploited by spammers to target recipients seeking news updates on quake that registered 6.3 on the Richter scale.
9 April 2009 | News
Security tightened for red shirts rally in Thailand
The police chief of Bangkok has said that the security units were on highest alert and have made the maximum preparation one day ahead of the largest-ever rally by red-shirted protesters, Thai News Agency reported.
9 April 2009 | News
Security light as Indonesians head for the polls
Indonesia’s parliamentary elections have proceeded peacefully so far, with security forces proving effective on day one of polling in the world’s third largest democracy.
9 April 2009 | News
Australia appoints first national security CIO
Former Defence intelligence officer Rachel Noble has been appointed as Australia’s first national security chief information officer (CIO) — a role that will provide strategic technology advice to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
9 April 2009 | News
Helicopters fly in for Indian elections
Air Force helicopters will carry out air surveillance ahead of the first phase of polls in six constituencies considered ultra left-wing in Jharkhand, India.
2 April 2009 | News
CCTV ramped up for G20 in London
With security fears rising in the build-up to the G20 summit on Thursday, London’s Metropolitan Police have been given access to more than 3,000 CCTV cameras around London.
1 April 2009 | News
World awaits Conficker worm attack
April Fool’s cyber security threat Conficker.c has failed to wreak havoc – yet – although a veteran hacker has warned Asian Security Review that the PC worm still has the potential to cause widespread damage.
31 March 2009 | News
PC worm to strike Singapore tomorrow
A government information security watchdog has issued a warning for companies and the general public to take precautions against a fast-mutating malicious computer program, which is poised to strike tomorrow (Wednesday April 1st).
25 March 2009 | News
UK: chemical or nuclear terrorist threat realistic
The British government has warned that the threat of a terrorist attack on the UK involving chemical or nuclear weapons is now more realistic.
25 March 2009 | News
Obama: terrorist threat not going away
US President Barack Obama has said that the terrorist threat to the US from Al-Qaeda is not going away and it needs to be taken very seriously.
25 March 2009 | News
EU wants CCTV to monitor police brutality
The European Council has recommended that Portugal monitors its police officers by using video-surveillance cameras inside stations following us complaints of police brutality against detainees.
25 March 2009 | News
More CCTV planned for 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Vancouver city officials want to use $2.5 million in government funding to purchase street cameras for next year’s Winter Olympics.
25 March 2009 | News
GPS mobiles used to secure Indian elections
Bangalore, the technology capital of India, will be using technology to improve the transparency of its elections in the state.
19 March 2009 | News
Malaysia's new security chief to tackle illegal immigration
Malaysia has appointed a new head of security, Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid, who fills the newly created role of General Operations Force deputy director Deputy Commissioner of Police. His primary objectives are to control the influx of illegal immigrants and breach of airport security.
19 March 2009 | News
Radar detection system planned for Korean border
The government of South Korea is believed to be planning an increase in security measures at its border with North Korea, including a radar system that can detect the movement of human traffic in dense terrain.
18 March 2009 | News
US expert calls for global biometrics clearing house
Biometric information should be freely shared between countries to combat terrorism and help victims of disaster quickly locate their loved ones, a senior American biometrics expert told delegates at the Global Security Asia conference today (Wednesday 18 March).
18 March 2009 | News
Public sector data theft problem could get worse in Asia: Symantec
More than half of Americans who left their jobs in 2008 admit to stealing data from their employees – and eight per cent of them were from government agencies. The problem is at least as bad in Asia, but data theft goes unreported, according to the survey’s author, Symantec.
17 March 2009 | News
Obama’s approach to security in Afghanistan lauded at GSA
New US President Barack Obama’s approach to security in Afghanistan drew praise from a senior Afghan academic at the Global Security Asia conference today (Tuesday 17 March).
17 March 2009 | News
London takes partnership approach to 2012 Olympics security
London is adopting a “partnership approach” to security in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, engaging local businesses and security professionals through the counter-terrorism initiative ‘Project Griffin’.
12 March 2009 | News
Using same password poses major security risk: Sophos
The tendency for internet users to use the same password for different web sites poses a major security risk to public and private sector organisations, according to a survey conducted by IT security firm Sophos.
12 March 2009 | News
India reviews security at South Asian embassies
India has announced a large-scale security review of its embassies in South Asia following threats against Indian nationals in Afghanistan.
12 March 2009 | News
ATM robberies prompt tech rethink in Thailand
Thailand has revamped more than 30,000 automated teller machines (ATMs) to prevent criminal gangs from stealing bank account information amid a spat of thefts in the South East Asian country.
12 March 2009 | News
Korea to back up national communications networks
Korea is planning to build a national wireless infrastructure to provide backup for existing systems in case of emergency.
10 March 2009 | News
Singapore law enforcers to use wireless stun-guns
Law enforcers in Singapore are adopting “Buck Rogers-style” wireless Taser stun-guns in response to the rising threat of petty and violent crime amid one of the worst recessions to hit the city-state.
3 March 2009 | News
The UK - a database state?
Senior government officials in the UK have voiced their concern that their country is becoming a “database state”.
2 March 2009 | News
Glasgow Airport attack response: a lesson for Mumbai
The response to the terrorist attack on Glasgow International Airport in June 2005 is a text-book example of how a business can quickly return to normal after a major incident, the President of Singapore’s Business Continuity Group (BCG), Jaspar Tan, said at a security briefing last week.
2 March 2009 | News
Expert: terrorism still a major threat in Asia
The threat of terrorism in Asia shows no signs of abating in the short-term, a leading expert on political violence has warned.
2 March 2009 | News
Singapore Police holds counter-terrorism briefing
The Singapore Police Force held a security briefing for local businesses last week (Friday 27 February) as part of a plan to involve the local community in counter-terrorism measures. The briefing was prompted by last November’s Mumbai attacks in which international terrorism claimed its first Singaporean victim.
25 February 2009 | News
Trojan horse attacks Facebook
Social networking giant Facebook has been attacked by a rogue application that bombards users with bogus notification messages.
24 February 2009 | News
Singapore ramps up coastal defences
Singapore is ramping up measures to protect its shores from terrorists and pirates, taking a lesson from last November’s Mumbai terrorists attacks when intruders attacked India’s commercial capital from small boats.
24 February 2009 | News
‘Virtual strip search’ Asia-bound
The controversial millimeter wave body-imaging technology, also known as the ‘virtual strip search’, is expected to be introduced to Asia-Pacific within a year, following extensive trialing in the United States.
20 February 2009 | News
London Underground police issued with new radios
Police working on London’s Underground have been issued with Sepura Tetra radios for the first time, enabling the British Transport Police to communicate anywhere on the sprawling subterranean rail network.
17 February 2009 | News
International effort battles Australian bushfires
Firefighters from the United States and Canada have been brought in to help control blazes that continue to rage across Southeastern Australia.
11 February 2009 | News
Airwell allows CCTV tower fire to spread
A fire caused by fireworks at the nearly-completed tower housing the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and China Central Television (CCTV) took 600 fire-fighters more than five hours to put out.
9 February 2009 | News
Threat from JI diminished but not gone
Terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah remains a major security threat in the region, although that threat has been reduced, a leading academic at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies has said.
9 February 2009 | News
High tech and teamwork fight Australian fires
Australian firefighters are using thermal imaging cameras to identify the hottest parts of blazes that are sweeping across southeastern Australia.
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