News & Reviews:   cyber attack

Recently, the Flexi Parking app was not able to make payments for parking, apparently due to cyber attacks. Vastly used across Selangor in 64 local councils, Flexi Parking have since announced that their “app service is now back online”. Previously, Selangor MB Dato' Seri Amirudin Shari announced that parking fees and fines in affected areas during the downtime would not be charged.

The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) has claimed that our country is still lacking around 12000 cyber security experts in various fields to tackle cyber attacks. Its Minister, Fahmi Fadzil further elaborated that this is one of the challenges faced by the government in its national digitalisation agenda.

If you're a Garmin user and have been experiencing issues from their servers and services, you're not alone. It turned out that the company was under cyber attack for a week since 23 July and this affected their website, customer support, apps and others. Today, Garmin Malaysia just tweeted that their server systems are back to operation (but not all, though).