Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Thursday expressed concern about the integrity of the upcoming elections after lawmakers discovered the breach in the operations of the Commission on Elections' (Comelec)​ service contractor, Smartmatic. Sotto said it is necessary for the Senate...
"The Comelec system was not hacked. Clear and simple." Comelec/MANILA BULLETIN file photo These were the words of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner George Irwin Garcia on Thursday, March 17 regarding the alleged hacking of the poll body's system in time for the upcoming May 2022...
After about two months of investigation and various denials from different concerned agencies, lawmakers on Thursday, March 17 confirmed that there was "indeed a security breach" in the operations of the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) service contractor, Smartmatic. Senator Imee Marcos,...
The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo believes the progression of people’s campaign will “turn the tide” against the proliferation of fake news and disinformation in the run-up to the May 2022 polls. Vice President Leni Robredo at the Iloilo grand rally on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (VPLR Media...
The House of Representatives ratified House Bill (HB) 10689, a bill aimed toward combating "phishing," online fraud, and other forms of cybercrime following the recent spate of alleged phishing and hacking incidents involving Banco De Oro (BDO) and Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) . PIXABAY STOCK...
Two elections watchdog groups have agreed there is no hacking on the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) website, particularly data for the 2022 polls, but they called on the body to ensure the integrity of its system against any possible breach. The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting...
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), said Friday there was no hacking on the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) website but they believed the system of the poll body's software...
Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday called on banks and other financial institutions to toughen its stance against cybercrime especially at a time more people are turning to digital transactions. Poe, who chairs the Senate Committee on Banks, Financial Institutions and Currencies, made the appeal...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday slammed the reported hacking of teachers’ bank accounts by still unidentified “unscrupulous individuals” whom he said are concocting all kinds of methods to steal money via online and other digital means. Earlier in the day, the Teachers’ Dignity...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s (BSP) Cybersecurity Oversight and Surveillance Group is regularly updating its standards and protocols against cybersecurity threats amid the mounting number of bank hacking and fraud incidents taking place within the banking industry in the last couple of years....
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) said the reported hacking of the Commission in Elections (Comelec) servers must be fully investigated and resolved at the soonest time possible. Namfrel FB In a statement, the poll watchdog group cited how the reported hacking raised...
An official of the Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, Jan. 12, confirmed that the website of the agency was subjected to a cyber attack over the weekend. (Image courtesy of DepEd Undersecretary Alain Pascua) The said hacking of the DepEd website happened on Sunday, Jan. 9, Education...
