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Fostering int'l collaboration: Tech experts, students from Singapore attend CICC-led cybersecurity forum

Published Apr 12, 2024 07:29 am

To mark 55 years of diplomatic relations, the Philippines’ Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) welcomed representatives from Singapore's Nanyang Polytechnics Institute of Higher Learning College East and the Association of Information Security Professionals Singapore (AiSP) to a cybersecurity forum.

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The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) welcomed students and faculty from Singapore's Nanyang Polytechnics, Institute of Higher Learning College East and from the Association of Information Security Professionals Singapore (AiSP). The CICC-AiSP-WiSAP Cybersecurity Forum was held on April 10 at the National Cybercrime Hub in Bonifacio Global City and was co-organized by the Women in Security Alliance Philippines (WiSAP). (CICC)

CICC Executive Director Alexander K. Ramos shared with the Singaporean delegates how CICC successfully advocated for "zero bureaucracy" through the establishment of the National Cybercrime Hub in December 2022.

“We don’t tolerate delay with communication. We don’t deal with long queues in zero bureaucracy,” he said in a statement on April 12.

“Zero bureaucracy is a tool to fight cybercrime because every minute counts,” Ramos added.

The hub serves as a center for collaboration among various stakeholders in government, the private sector, and the academe.

The said forum was held on April 10, at the National Cybercrime Hub in Bonifacio Global City, in Taguig City.

The Philippines and Singapore are founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which was established on Aug. 8,1967 together with Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

Along with the CICC and AiSP, Women in Security Alliance Philippines (WiSAP) co-organized the event.

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Their aim was to celebrate the longstanding collaboration between Singapore and the Philippines, which commenced on May 16, 1969.

Meanwhile, WiSAP Chair and President Mel Migriño highlighted the Asia Scam Report 2023 by Gogolook, the developer of Whoscall – a service that blocks scam calls and verifies phone numbers.

“Among the 11 countries surveyed in Asia, Filipinos are the least likely to report to authorities when they are victims of cybercrime,” CICC said.

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Asia Scam Report 2023 . (CICC)

“The survey shows that only 24.6 percent of Filipino victims of scams report to authorities because of the low rate of recovery,” it added.

The Gogolook report also showed a low rate of reporting by scam victims in Vietnam (26 percent) and Korea (31.6 percent), while high rates of reporting by scam victims were noted in China, with 55 percent, and Singapore, with 51.5 percent.

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Asia Scam Report 2023 . (CICC)

Highest shopping scam rate among 11 Asian countries

In November 2023, the CICC, an attached agency to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), urged the public to be "extra careful" as the Philippines recorded the highest shopping scam rate among 11 Asian countries.

"The 2023 Asia Scam Report released at the 1st Anti-Scam Asia Summit in Taipei was published by GASA and Gogolook and was based on data collected from nearly 20,000 respondents across 11 countries in Asia including the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, China and Indonesia," CICC said.

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https://mb.com.ph/2023/11/23/ph-records-highest-shopping-scam-rate-among-11-asian-countries

Furthermore, Scam Watch Pilipinas, the national citizen arm of the Philippine government dedicated to educating Filipinos about cyber fraud, co-founder Jocel De Guzman reiterated to the public the importance of reporting all cybercrime-related incidents to authorities.

He underscored that calling the 1326 Inter-Agency Response Center hotline to address cybersecurity-related problems swiftly.

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