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A new strain of the coronavirus has, again, made the world’s different countries scramble to secure their borders from allowing entry to those infected. Already, the Philippines has banned the entry of travelers from 21 nations where the new virus has been detected.

The large scale phishing campaigns by cybercriminals amid the pandemic was a huge success, it harvested more than six hundred thousand Facebook credentials from Nepal, Egypt, the Philippines, and other countries. Early this month, ThreatNix, a group of security professionals that provides cybersecurity solutions published a report that shows more than fifteen thousand compromised Facebook PH accounts in this phishing campaign.

FWD Insurance is excited to announce  the launch of a digital ecosystem that rewards everyone for doing good by way of  sharing financial life skills and helping bridge the protection gap in the country. 

Mobile games have become more popular this year probably due to the quarantine restrictions brought about by the recent pandemic. As the whole nation was in lockdown inside their houses, people turn to their gadgets to keep them company and as their window to the outside world.

The grandeur of listening to your favorite music from a worthy personal sound device is like looking for that perfect pair of jeans.

Gaming consoles have been dominating the childhood memories of a lot of people since the first gaming console was introduced. Since then, gaming consoles have evolved and improved, revolutionizing the gaming experience around the world.

Data security is a growing concern among enterprise worldwide. Add the new realities brought about by remote working and you can fairly guess how complex and worrying the problem of data security has become.

The Information Security Officers Group (ISOG) was organized by a team of current and now retired Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from different financial institutions.  Its members initially consisted of CISOs and IT security professionals that come primarily from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Supervised Financial Institutions, referred to as BSFIs. The organization’s main thrust is the formation of a new culture of Information Security that will have a far-reaching impact upon their respective institutions and the whole Philippine landscape.  In order to cover the entire archipelago, ISOG has opened its membership to other non-BSFI institutions, thus, welcoming the rest of the end-user information security practitioners of the country into its fold.

Since the 1500s, watches have been an essential accessory of men and women. Originally worn as a pendant or attached to clothing – known as a pomander watch, it has survived the test of time and has adapted to the needs of people at present and beyond.

The official contact tracing app of the Philippines, StaySafe.ph is not safe.

Phantom Troupe, the group behind the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) data breach is on a rampage attacking government websites and successfully defacing and breaching some servers.  More than two thousand user information including NBI clearance, medical certificate, passport, and other documents with personally identifiable information was downloaded by the hacking group from the servers of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

The Spanish startup, Jeff,  recently announced the expansion of its new business lines and  the development of its technological product for the entrepreneurs in its network including those in the Philippines.  It also announced the launch of its operations in the United States and the opening of its first office in New York in January 2021.  

As the rollout of global 5G progresses, its adoption in industries has moved from technical verification to commercial deployment.

For viral infections, fever is one of the first and most frequent symptom. And this has been one of the first signs doctors look out for when the pandemic Covid-19 broke out this year. Covid-19 is known to cause an increase in body temperature. According to the German Robert Koch Institute, almost 90% of infected people in China have been diagnosed with fever. This focus on fever screening as a preventive measure to contain the current pandemic is one of the hallmarks of WHO’s basic steps.

Many Philippine government servers remain to be vulnerable as hackers continue to leak data from poorly protected websites. The recent Office of the Solicitor General data leak was not the first, early September this year, another group of hackers breached the security of the server of the OSG. MalaikatHati a hacker believed to be from Indonesia defaced career.osg.gov.ph and posted: “We hack this site to inform about the vulnerability of your site. Please patch your security, A big vulnerability found at your site”. A warning that was obviously not taken seriously by the agency as more than a month later, Phantom Troupe, a Pinoy hacking group, went inside the server using the same vulnerability exploited by the Indonesian hacker. According to Phantom Troupe, the group downloaded more than nine thousand files that include personally identifiable information of people applying for a job at the OSG.

This article was originally about www.projectbass.org and how it gives the true measure of internet speed in the Philippines. I was about to interview Fleire Castro, one of the co-founders of Project BASS (Bandwidth and Signal Statistics) when I got side-tracked. While I was looking at Fleir’s background on her FB page, I saw her post about her sister, a frontline nurse in the US.

LTE is more than just faster internet speed. It can improve voice calls with atechnology called Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice Over WiFi (VoWiFi).

The online application database of the Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines was defaced a few hours ago. The attacker, Phantom Troupe is the same group who hacked servers of PH colleges and universities to secure vulnerabilities at the start of the Pandemic.