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...
The Manila Bulletin (MB) will comply with an order issued by the National Privacy Commission (NPC) to attend a "clarificatory meeting" on Jan. 25, 2022, where it will present pieces of evidence it was able to obtain regarding the alleged breach of Commission on Election (Comelec) servers. Manila...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is now investigating the reported hacking and data breach on servers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Comelec/MB In a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 12, NPC Commissioner John Henry D. Naga said the poll body was ordered to appear for a "clarificatory...
Just like in the 2016 polls, Vice President Leni Robredo said that her critics are once more conditioning the mind of the public through their “trolls” to believe that there will be massive cheating in the upcoming May elections after groups alleged that her camp is behind the hacking of the...
Malacañang admitted Tuesday, Jan. 11, that it is "concerned" by the reported hacking of the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) servers just a few months ahead of the May 2022 polls. (Sergey Zolkin/ Unsplash) "We will await any update to be pronounced by Comelec regarding this ‘no," Cabinet...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will release this week the final report on the alleged hacking of their servers. Comelec/MB "Before the week ends we will release a final report on that because the meeting with all our different units will only start this morning," Comelec Spokesperson James...
Two senators on Tuesday said they find it imperative for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to improve its online defenses and protect it from any possible security breaches especially in the run up to the May 2022 elections. Senators Risa Hontiveros and Panfilo “Ping” Lacson made the call...
