The Philippines’ Comelec data breach and its involvement in the Bangladesh heist highlight two important points: the government’s cybersecurity is predictably poor and criminal hackers have become so sophisticated that they can slip and steal cold hard cash across borders. Now that we have knowledge on how disappointing government services can be, it’s now more important […]
Read MoreOld School IT Security Tactics When an Antivirus Program is not Enough
One of the biggest issues of most companies today is information security. With news of cyber attacks from large corporations such as Sony, Home Depot, and Primera Blue Cross, companies have to take a step further when it comes to cyber security and disaster recovery. Traditional Anti-Virus Are No Longer Enough Most enterprises […]
Read MoreAuthentication in the Age of Information Insecurity
Authentication, as defined by Wikipedia, is the process of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data as claimed. In our daily routine, we use authentication even in small ways. The act of putting a key into a lock is a simple form of authentication. By using our ATM cards to […]
Read MoreThe Sequence of a Targeted Cyber Attack
How do cyber attacks happen exactly? According to a recent report, criminal hackers don’t need to rely on malware. They can act like a normal network admin, lurk around a compromised network, and steal your data. Originally it was believed that malware is the weapon of choice by criminal hackers in wreaking havoc on […]
Read MoreThe Promise and Peril with Enterprise Cloud Services
In the 1950s, the mainframe was so big and expensive that organizations could not afford to purchase it. In fact only a few can put up their own mainframe systems for their use. In response, the “time sharing” method was developed, finally enabling multiple users to access data and CPU. This was known as the […]
Read MoreThe Latest Effective Phishing Techniques Targeting Retail Businesses
Despite its prevalence, phishing is not a tale as old as time. In fact, these email scams originated around 1995 but has taken 10 years before common folks knew what it meant. A play on the word “fishing,” phishing is the act of sending an email to a person claiming to be a legitimate enterprise. […]
Read More6 Hacking Lessons That Businesses Can Learn from Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot is a drama-thriller television series about Elliot Anderson, a security engineer by day, and a hacker at night. He suffers from social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, only able to connect with people by hacking their personal lives. Eventually his talents capture the attention of a hacktivist group called fsociety. Pulled in by their […]
Read MoreThe Top Causes of Data Breach that You Need to Prepare for in 2016
Like what Johnny Mnemonic has shown us more than a decade ago, data will be the currency of a digitally connected world. The film was a total flop, but it did foretell an important insight – the value of data in a dystopian world ruled by mega corporations (you know, like Google and Facebook). […]
Read MoreIT Security: How Philippine Banks Can Mitigate Cyber Attacks
Data breach cases are gradually becoming a dime a dozen. While the most expensive breaches we’ve known so far are from the big companies in the US, that doesn’t mean the Philippines is safe. While the once “sick man of Asia” has made economic leaps thanks to the exponential growth of the offshore outsourcing industry, […]
Read MoreHacking The IoT (Internet of Things) Era
The Internet of Things might as well be called the Internet of Vulnerabilities. Here are the new vulnerabilities that are unintentionally caused by IoT, especially now that security compliance is not yet required among connected devices.
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