After amassing more than 123 million indicators of compromise to combat cyber-attacks, PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. last year foiled over 182 million attempts to breach the group’s digital infrastructure. The human factor is a major contributor to cybersecurity incidents, according to...
DAVAO CITY – The arraignment of losing vice presidential candidate Prof. Walden Bello has been set for Jan. 26 here after the Regional Trial Court Branch 10 dismissed the motion to quash the cyber libel charges filed against him by former Davao City Information Officer Jefry Tupas. BELLO...
House Committee on Transportation Chairman Antipolo City 2nd district Rep. Romeo Acop couldn't help but think of worst-case scenarios involving the aviation sector after experts failed to categorically rule out cyber attack as a possible cause of the Jan. 1 Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, January 15 urged the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to conduct a investigation on the possibility that a cyber attack caused the airport fiasco on New Year’s Day. Gatchalian pointed out that during the Senate hearing on the incident last...
The most wonderful time of the year need not be the most horrific, traumatic, and exhausting experience of your life, especially when you get the shock upon discovering that your credit card has already been “maxed out” with purchases that you didn’t do. It is this time of the year that the...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo As technology evolves and expands, so does cyber security threats — ranging from spam and phishing, data breaches, online privacy violations, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, among many others, as well as cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure that can...
Vice President Sara Duterte has this to say over accusations by former Akbayan Partylist Rep. and vice presidential candidate Walden Bello that she was behind his arrest over libel charges: “Stop obsessing over me.” Vice President Sara Duterte (left) and former lawmaker Walden Bello (right)...
The number of mobile malware attacks in the Philippines, one of the world’s biggest mobile-using countries, dropped sharply in the past two years but users should not drop their guard, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky warned this week. Among Southeast Asian countries, the pattern of declining mobile...
WorldRemit continues to put its customers’ security at the core of its business While Filipinos are now using the convenience of online banking services and mobile wallets, making any form of transactions online do come with the risk of being exposed to cyber crimes. According to the Bangko...
Local telcos are blocking more than double the number of cyber attacks to date as Filipinos continue to shift most of their activities online due to the pandemic. PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. combated more than double the number of ‘smishing’ (text messages that aim to steal the...
More than 20,000 attempted attacks on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website have been prevented and blocked by the Department of Communications and Technology (DICT), Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex C. Laudiangco disclosed, Saturday, May 14. “Marami pong sumubok na i-attack ‘yung...
For Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas, poll-related offenses like syndicated vote-buying and cyber vote-buying must be defined under the Batas Pambansa (BP) Blg. 881 or the Omnibus Election Code. (Maxim Ilyahov/ Unsplash In a statement over the weekend, Vargas lamented how the provisions...
