Holiday PSA: Be Careful of Those Greetings Sent to You via Messenger

It is the holidays, which means you, your family, and your friends will most likely receive or send greetings to one another. While this is an online tradition, a new malware-laden greeting—called the Wish-you.co—has been infiltrating over social media messaging platforms. Should you happen to receive something similar (other variations include wish4u.co, my-msg.co, surprise4u.co, and […]

LinkedIn’s Top Five Emerging Jobs in the Philippines Involves Use of Tech

With the market making its shift towards the digital space, technology plays a crucial role in most jobs. LinkedIn recently published its report on the emerging jobs in the Philippines for 2019. Based on millions of unique, user-input job titles from the last five years, here are the top five jobs: 1.  Data Scientist 2.  Application Development Analyst 3.  Back […]

Huawei Climbs To No 3 Spot In PH, Within Spitting Distance Of OPPO

A phenomenal rise for the company Huawei’s not just making waves on the international market. After managing to unseat Apple as the #2 smartphone maker based on information from IDC, the brand has also achieved phenomenal growth in the Philippines, one of the key developing markets for the company. According to research firm GfK, Huawei […]

Here’s How Grab Plans To Solve Problematic Drivers Who Cancel Trips

They will be taking action on the problem ASAP Grab is in hot water these days: From LTFRB’s order to suspend its Php 2 per minute fare charge that it implemented without telling its riders to various horror stories about unruly Grab drivers, the ride-hailing app isn’t exactly earning praises from its riders. It was only […]

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro Review: Sayonara, A9 Pro?

Is the first Samsung Phone with 6GB of RAM Worth It? Previously an exclusive to the Chinese market, Samsung Philippines launched the Galaxy C9 Pro locally a little over two weeks ago. We’ve been using it as our main phone for a week now, so it’s time to see if this 6-inch phablet is worth […]

Evernote’s New Privacy Policy Will No Longer Be Implemented

  Recently, Evernote posted an update to its Privacy Policy, allowing select employees to view the notes of some users for their new machine learning tool to work. Understandably, it did not sit well with many people as it is a breach of their right to privacy. Just a couple of hours ago, Evernote’s CEO, […]

Opera’s Cloud Servers Hacked, Accounts Compromised

If you’ve been using Opera or Opera Mini’s cloud service for syncing data (accounts, passwords) over the web, then it’s time for you to update your password. Opera has just announced that their cloud servers have been hacked, in a blog entry on Friday. Here’s the report from Opera on the security breach: Earlier this […]

Millions of Email Accounts May Have Been Hacked

It’s Time to Change Your Passwords Yesterday, a story broke that millions of email accounts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and other email providers may have been compromised by a Russian hacker. The security breach contained 57 million accounts from Mail.ru (a Russian provider), 40 million from Yahoo! Mail, 33 million Hotmail, and 24 million […]

Indonesian Hackers Deface Multiple PH Government Websites

Not good The government has not been having a good time lately as far as cybersecurity is concerned. After the Comelec hack and subsequent data dumps that exposed the details of 55 million Filipino voters online, a new cyberattack has highlighted the woeful state of security of government websites. Gantengers, a group that identifies themselves […]