Enterprise tech news and intelligence in the Philippines
In a Gartner report published in July, it says that only 65 percent of organizations have cybersecurity experts in spite of the increasing number of high-profile data breaches worldwide. With…
In its recent article, Cybersecurity of the Philippines-CERT (CSP-CERT) illustrates how sextortion scams happen with victims often left helpless and opt to just give in to the criminal’s demand. In…
(Image from Pixabay) Instagram (IG) is one of the most popular social networking sites today with one billion monthly users. With the sheer number of accounts, it has become a…
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach more than $114 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.4 percent from last year, according to…
(Image from Pixabay) A security researcher MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new variant of Matrix Ransomware that can rename encrypted files, according to the report by BleepingComputer. Computers running Remote Desktop Services…
In the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented over 107 million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35.7 percent were related to financial services and targeting…
(Image by Bethany Drouin/Pixabay) Cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance, according to the latest survey by Gartner Inc. While cloud…
(Image by Gerald Altman/Pixabay) The wave of cyber attacks does not match the number of information security officers (infosec) needed to respond to the crimes. There are more high-profile data…
On July 18, the Cybersecurity Philippines CERT (CSP-Cert) vulnerability research team discovered a number of vulnerabilities in Lenovo Portable Router R2105, which has been discontinued since 2014 and is only…
From left: Julius Suarez, Sophos Asean systems engineer; Margaret Acibron, VP Sales for NetPlay Inc;, Jett Ching, Sophos territory manager for Netplay Inc., William Arnaiz, Globe Business consulting manager, Jojo…
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) Security firm Sophos took a deeper look into the SamSam ransomware and found out that its victims have paid almost $6 million in ransom demands since…
(Image by Pete Linfort/Pixabay) Despite high-profile cyber attacks and massive data breaches happening recently, organizations don’t see the need to have cybersecurity experts onboard. Industry research firm Gartner finds that…
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) Even cybercriminals upgrade or upcycle ransomware as evidenced by Jigsaw that has reemerged to target the cryptocurrency industry. The ransomware is now known as BitcoinStealer and…
(Image by Darwin Laganzon/Pixabay) Recent data breaches, not only in the private sector but in the government as well, raised cybersecurity awareness in the Philippines. While the conversation is still…
Calisto, a version of the Mac malware called Proton, was discovered only recently but has been around for two years. Security experts say it is already dead at this point…
(Image from Pixabay) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is among the 1.5 million patients of SingHealth, whose non-medical data were compromised in a cyber attack that was detected on…
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) One of the longest-running exploits called Magnitude has been upgraded to target more countries in the Asia-Pacific, according to the blog post of Malwarebytes. Magniber, the…
Network and endpoint security firm Sophos announced the availability of its Sophos Intercept X for Server, a next-generation server protection with predictive deep learning technology that provides constantly evolving security…
(Image by Sasin Tipchai/Pixabay) While critical industries such as the financial sector have embraced and invested heavily in information security, the hospitality industry has been left wide open for cybercriminals.…
About 21 million users have been affected by the Timehop data breach that happened on July 4. The digital nostalgia app that collects photos from across all social media platforms…
(Image by Prayad Kosasaeng/Pixabay) Google has rolled out the Android Security Patch for July 2018 including the 2018-07-01 and 2018-07-05 and is now available worldwide, at least for Pixel and…
(Image by Monoar Rahman Rony/Pixabay) Microsoft has long disabled macros to avoid possible security risks but cybercriminals have found a way to utilize them in deploying payloads in user desktop…
Network and endpoint security firm Sophos announced recently the findings of its survey, “The State of Endpoint Security Today,” which shows the extent to which businesses are at risk of…
(Image by Gerald Altmann/Pixabay) Trend Micro recently ran a survey on Twitter asking people how they feel about their data on social media. The results are almost split because people…
(Image from Pixabay) A team of security researchers discovered a new vulnerability that would likely affect every Android phone — and even tablets — released after 2012. The vulnerability is…
(Screencap from NameTests website) When it rains, it pours. Facebook is still recovering from the massive crisis brought by the Cambridge Analytica scandal and yet another data leak exposé is…
(Image from Pixabay) In developing countries, consumers don’t have much choice but to buy the most affordable smartphone. As long as the camera is good and it works well, that…
(Image by Gerd Altman/Pixabay) Now that businesses have fully embraced digital transformation by moving their data to the cloud, they are now faced with the gargantuan task of protecting information…
(Image by Pete Linforth / Pixabay) Ransomware incidents have significantly dropped in the first half of 2018 while the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency gave criminals a new target, according to…
The excitement over World Cup 2018 is building up as the finals are getting nearer and nearer. Fans and new converts flock to social media to show support for their…
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