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...
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) launched a major new report at its Global Summit in Manila today, to help the sector’s stakeholders understand how cyber resilience is shaping the Travel & Tourism sector and plan for a safer and more robust future. The report, ‘Codes to...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Tuesday, March 22, contested the cyber libel case filed against him by Vice Mayor Iyo Bernardo, denying that his comments were libelous. “Obviously I don’t think I said anything libelous...I didn’t post anything online, say anything online. That was...
FILIPINO consumers must become responsible digital citizens to protect themselves from internet-based crimes, and while there are existing laws against cybercrimes, the government and the private sector must work together to educate and empower the people against falling prey to cybercriminals, an...
