Sales, Social and Tech

300,000 personal details were leaked to the public in Singapore when a hacker group release K-Box membership details the they hack. In the release data, anybody could obtain the name, address, IC number, mobile number and even their date of birth.  First level of scary is that these details are  often the first questions any credit card or bank operator will ask when a call is made to their hotline.  There are still some security questions that the operator might ask, but those usually are yes/no questions that one can easily answer to get the right permutations. Some websites also use the data above and this could lead to other serious form of identity theft. The next level of scary is that a simple search of the names on Facebook or Google could easily result in portrait photos that could be easily put face to name.  A potential stalker can now visit the address, identify the victim around the area and do much harm, not just to the victim but their close famil

Channel NewsAsia wrote about a M1 Facebook Fan who have highlighted a bug in the iPhone 6 registration website. It was reported that the person who found the bug was able to access forms of previous submission and is able to get these users phone number, IC number and even home address. However, what is interesting is that it seems M1 took about 18 hours to respond the comment. Image from Channel NewsAsia . 18 hours is a very long time to react to a security bug like this as any data would have be "hacked" in minutes. Probably M1 Social Media do not work on weekends so this was given a missed. One of the issues here is that when a security bug is found by a user, the user had to go through the long process of submitting the screenshot at M1 Feedback Site. In cases like this, a direct message would have been better to expedite the issue. Oh wait.. M1 disabled the Messaging function on their Page.

Sales is a number game and also about finding out what you customer want or need. If your customer had a want that leads to a home run, should you keep trying to hit it until you are strike out of the deal? Or should you aim to meet the need - a smaller sales number but a guaranteed hit to first base? I would go for the latter. Meeting a need is much more easier to convince to meet a want.  Plus it helps you get one foot in the door for later upsell that could help you achive a run.

This Mars be a world first. Post by SGAG . Is this the Singapore spaceport that was announced earlier? If the Sun was installed on the Yishun Flat, will the children or HDB resale value there be brighter? Most important question that HDB has to answer - Is Pluto a planet?