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Lift, commonly known as an elevator to Filipinos, is an essential platform to carry passengers from one level to another. Filipino families are looking for ways to age in place. Many senior citizens and persons with disability family members have difficulties moving from one floor to the other. A home lift solution can help maintain comfort and mobility for older family members and all.

Have you applied for a loan, invested online, or joined an online business group where you were required to submit a scanned copy of your identification card to prove your identity? If your answer is yes, you could be a victim of identity theft in the future.

The number of social media users recently scammed, hacked, and even harassed online is alarming. While cybercrime victims before were the clueless titos and titas, now, journalists, doctors, teachers, and even those in the religious communities have fallen to the more sophisticated forms of scams. We could see now the impact of cybercrime across all ages and spectrums of society.

Filipino cybersecurity professionals reiterate their call for companies and government agencies to have a functional Vulnerability Disclosure Program or VDP. Read on to know why.

A data privacy leak of massive proportion that could potentially put to shame the COMELeak, LTO, AFP, and all other local breaches put together was waiting to happen as PhilSys was about to put online the registration for the country’s National ID System.

Even security professionals are now the target of internet scams and online fraud. Fake data leaks are now being sold in hacker forums together with authentic databases for 500 US dollars. There are actual databases that interest security researchers. Still, unscrupulous individuals have inserted fake data leaks from financial institutions and private agencies to trick users into buying the leaks they are offering. While veteran cybersecurity practitioners could “smell” these fake leaks immediately, it could trick wannabe hackers into buying these databases in the hope of using them for future attacks.

It’s still one of the best mobile phones for photography, 5G connectivity, and overall performance.

Cybersecurity affects everyone – from regular employees to executives, from patients to doctors, from consumers to company owners, from small family businesses to the world’s biggest banks, and many more — victims of cybercrimes come from every spectrum of society and if we will not be careful, these victims could be me, you, our friends, and our family members.

If your answer is yes, then you’re in big trouble. A 2015 malware has recently re-emerged, and this time it is more dangerous. It’s called Facebook “malicious tagging”.

EDITORS DESK

If you’re a Facebook user, you need to read this, now! McDonald’s is not giving away 50 dollars in exchange for your Facebook login and password. PLDT is not looking for employees using a Facebook page that could not even spell simple words correctly. Smart is not offering free data boost even if you send them your Facebook credentials. The Globe Telecom FB page with two dots on top of the letter “o” that offers free gifts is not the Philippine telecommunications giant Globe Telecom. If you see these ads on your wall, you have been targeted. Stay away from these pages.

899,629 accounts are from the Philippines

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) the government agency that provides health insurance coverage for Filipinos cried foul over an April Fools day post of Crypto in Asia (@cryptoinasia), a Facebook page with more than a thousand followers saying that “Philthealth chief Dante Gierran admits: “stolen” money was actually invested in Bitcoin and has now grown more than 5.33 times”. As of this posting, the Crypto in Asia FB post has 174 likes, 27 comments and 411 shares.

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) the government agency that provides health insurance coverage for Filipinos cried foul over an April Fools day post of Crypto in Asia (@cryptoinasia), a Facebook page with more than one thousand followers saying that “Philthealth chief Dante Gierran admits: “stolen” money was actually invested in Bitcoin and has now grown more than 5.33 times”. As of this posting, the Crypto in Asia FB post has 174 likes, 27 comments, and 411 shares.

Like following the minimum health safety protocols to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, you also need to maintain proper cybersecurity measures on your devices to not only protect yourself but also your friends and family. Just like the Coronavirus where anyone not properly protected could get it, a computer, laptop, desktop, tablet, or any other devices connected to the internet once compromised could also infect other devices making everyone vulnerable.

Radenta Technologies Inc., one of the country’s leading solutions integrators celebrates its fifth year with an eye for widening its reach to the ASEAN region.

“Another one bites the dust. Hey I’m gonna get you too, another one bites the dust”, says the lyrics of the most iconic of all Queen songs “Another one bites the dust”. This is also what Phantom Troupe, a group of Filipino cybersecurity enthusiasts, has been telling poorly secured government websites and servers since the start of the pandemic last year. 

A hacker who calls himself IamNoobie told me that he was so pissed-off with the way government agencies implement security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”.