BERLIN, Germany -- The websites of German airports, public administration bodies and financial sector organisations have been hit by cyberattacks instigated by a Russian "hacker group", authorities said Thursday. The Federal Cyber Security Authority (BSI) had "knowledge of DDoS attacks against...
Globe Telecom Inc. blocked 2.72 billion scam and spam messages in 2022, more than double the 2021 total of 1.15 billion, as it intensified its campaign against malicious SMS. Notably, the telco blocked a total of 83.4 million bank-related spam messages last year. Globe partnered with all major...
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy urged the 19th Congress to allocate additional funds for the strengthening of the country’s cybersecurity. The appeal was made at a Commission on Appointments (CA) committee hearing held on Tuesday, Dec. 6....
Filipinos were warned against clicking suspicious links and logging into unverified websites following unreliable claims that Friendster, a social networking site that ended its services in 2015, has finally returned. Is Friendster back? The Department of Information and Communications...
Enterprises should always be on guard against cyberattacks and operate on an “assumed breach mode" as if their systems have already been infiltrated, according to telco giant PLDT. "That should be the operating mode so that you would always stay vigilant that something might happen and you might...
Bayan Muna party-list, on Thursday, Feb. 17, has filed a resolution seeking an investigation into the recent cyberattacks conducted against the websites of several news outlets for alleged biased reporting. Bayan Muna representatives Carlos Zarate, Ferdinand Gaite, and Eufemia Cullamat filed House...
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...
Senator Richard Gordon on Tuesday branded as “horrendous” the recent cyber-attacks launched against two news media organizations known to be critical of the Duterte administration, condeming the act as an infringement of freedom of the press. “What happened to the ABS-CBN News and Rappler...
The Senate's official website has also been hit by an online attack, administrators of the site said on Wednesday, Oct. 6. The report was released a few hours after Senator Richard Gordon's office confirmed that the lawmaker's official website also fell victim last October 4. An official from the...
Senator Richard Gordon's official website has fallen victim to a coordinated online attack, causing the site to shut down for several hours, his office disclosed on Wednesday, Oct. 6. Myke Cruz, information technology officer of Gordon’s office, made the report amid the Senate Blue Ribbon...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday expressed certainty that China will carry out cyberespionage activities in the Philippines ahead of the country’s May 2022 elections. Hontiveros said she believes that a number of Philippine government "actors" are already part or are the target of these...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, July 20, raised her concern that the government of China could "heavily influence" the 2022 elections through alleged cyberespionage campaigns against the Philippines. A first-time voter registers at the Commission on Election (Comelec) office in Pasay City....
