All organisations should adopt anti-SMS spoofing measures, say cyber security experts


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SINGAPORE – A day after banks were told to put in place more stringent measures to bolster the security of digital banking within the next two weeks, cyber-security experts said all organisations should adopt anti-SMS spoofing measures. An example would be signing up for the SMS sender ID registry, which was launched as a pilot by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)last August. “It should be the immediate priority, as scams originating via spoofed SMS and calls are becoming one of the top security concerns among the residents in Singapore,” said Mr C.K. Chim, cyber-security firm Cybereason’s field chief security...