A cPanel Flaw Lets One Hosting Customer Reach Every Other Customer on the Server
CVE-2026-58048 gives an authenticated cPanel user database root privileges. On shared hosting, that reaches databases be...
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ASEAN edition · Tue, 20 Oct 2026 · Signal over noise
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Malaysia Asked Google to Remove 46 Things in Six Months. Three Years Later It Asked for 27,484
We read every ASEAN row in Google's government-removals dataset. Speech-based demands are falling in the countries that...
Southeast Asia Hosts the Scam Compounds. East Asia and Australasia Lose the Money
UNODC puts 2025 scam losses at US$88.3–114.1 billion across three sub-regions. On its own breakdown South-East Asia acco...
ASEAN Signs One Digital Rulebook in November. Its Members Keep Writing Their Own
DEFA negotiations concluded in May and signature is set for November. In the ten weeks between, five member states legis...
Grab's Profit Rose 54%. Its Biggest Profit Engine Got Slightly Worse
Grab reported record second-quarter results. On its own measure, the segment carrying most of the profit saw its margin...
Malaysia Says Data Centres Will Take 31% of Its Electricity by 2035
A written parliamentary reply puts data-centre electricity use at 31 per cent of national consumption by 2035, against 7...
The Region's Best "Sovereign" AI Model Is Built on Gemma and Licensed by Google
Vietnam has made national language models a strategic product. Southeast Asia's most developed answer ranks #4 of 55 — a...
In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely
The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measurement under...
Malaysia Told Firms an AI Cannot Decide Alone — In Guidance That Is Not Binding
Malaysia issued guidelines on automated decisions, impact assessments and privacy by design on 30 April. They are adviso...
Vietnam Put a Vietnamese Language Model on Its List of Strategic Technologies
Decision 21/2026/QD-TTg names ten strategic technologies and thirty strategic products. One of them is large-scale Vietn...
Indonesia's Crypto Market Now Answers to the Regulator That Supervises Banks
On 1 July the governance and reporting duties of a financial-sector business took effect for Indonesian crypto platforms...
Singapore's Cyber Command Ran Its First Scam Sweep. It Was the Third in Six Weeks
Singapore stood up a dedicated Cyber Command on 3 July. Its first islandwide scam sweep was the third such operation in...
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