IT team lead attached to State Courts installed remote desktop app risking 18,000 files, gets jail

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A Singapore State Courts IT team lead was jailed after giving a foreign acquaintance remote access to a government-managed laptop. The unauthorized remote desktop app put approximately 18,000 files at risk, reportedly as the employee sought help preparing for a cybersecurity examination.

Janarthanan Tamil Kovan had granted his foreign acquaintance remote access to the government-managed laptop as Janarthanan wanted to use it to take a cyber security examination.