Earlier today, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) confirmed that a “data leak” has occurred in the Smartmatic system. However, it reassured the public that is not in any way related to the upcoming elections. “They (Smartmatic) emphasized to us that the data leak does not have anything to do with the elections in 2022,” Comelec […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross just released an update on a hack incident that was discovered sometime this month. According to the statement, one of their cyber partners alerted them about suspicious activities in their Family Links services. Photo courtesy of Juliana Amador Mesa, ICRC The program in question works to restore and […]
With Facebook facing a number of criticisms lately (which include CEO Mark Zuckerberg being summoned in a court hearing), the social media giant faced another big issue, as a leaker exposed the personal data of over 500 million Facebook users. The said leak includes information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries–32 million […]
Change your passwords, now Local hacking collective Pinoy LulzSec has announced that it has managed to breach the servers of Cebu Pacific via their GetGo portal yesterday evening. While it’s not clear what data the hackers managed to collect, they made a promise via Twitter that a “large data breach was coming from GetGo to […]
This is the second time our data has been pilfered Yesterday we learned that a company that the Department of Foreign Affairs outsourced the production of passports to managed to run off with data that they acquired in the years that they’ve been doing their job. This is a big deal. Not just because of […]
Stolen information includes full names, email addresses, birthdays While investigations on the September 28 breach are ongoing, Facebook has informed the National Privacy Commision (NPC) that a total of 775,973 Philippines-based accounts were compromised. In a report from the Philippine News Agency, the affected accounts are sorted into three buckets based on the amount of info that […]
Make sure to secure your accounts Dutch security researcher Willem “gwillem” de Groot has discovered a payment skimmer on broadcaster ABS-CBN’s online store recently. According to de Groot, the payment skimmer has been active since August this year and has been intercepting and sending financial data of customers to a server located in Irkutsk, Russia. […]
Uber PH has not outlined the data exposed in the leak The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has confirmed that drivers and passengers of Uber in the Philippines were among the users who had their personal information exposed in a massive data breach last year. “Yesterday, Uber wrote to us in compliance with their commitment to […]
Last week, we reported that Yahoo! had confirmed that they had been a victim of a security breach in 2014. This breach was said to have affected 500 million Yahoo accounts, but a former executive from the company says it could have well been anywhere from 1 to 3 billion. The unnamed source, who is […]
It’s all here Comelec’s been trying to downplay the massive data breach, called by international outfits as the biggest government data-related breach in history, ever since it happened. For some reason, it hasn’t been making a lot of news in the local space, but that’s soon to change. One of the biggest issues with […]
HP Philippines and AMD recently geld the CXO Summit 2024 in Dusit Thani Lubi Plantation Resort, Davao de Oro. Held from January 24 to 26, the 3-day event hosted industry leaders to sharte their insights on sustainabilty, AI, and security. The first day of CXO Summit 2024 focused on the importance of sustainability, which is […]
Trend Micro held its annual cybersecurity conference last November 14 with Decode 2023: Resilience Rising. Held at EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, over 700 attendees participated in the day-long event to learn about the latest topics on cybersecurity. With all the cybersecurity issues that the country has faced in the past few months, here are five of […]