Solutions to cybersecurity rest in cross-border cooperation: Yaacob

Singapore

THE questions of cybersecurity and hacking might preoccupy individual nations, but the solutions have to be found in cross-border cooperation, the region's telecommunications and information technology (IT) ministers agreed yesterday.

"Of course, we're concerned. (Hacktivism) is a crime and can affect society in ways (that) we can't imagine . . . it can bring down the power system, telecoms system, affect hospitals . . . so there are implications," said Singapore Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim.