In Asia Pacific, Kaspersky has detected 53 coronavirus-related malware in the Philippines, 93 in Bangladesh, 40 in China, 23 in Vietnam, 22 in India, and 20 in Malaysia.
From its 11th ranking last 2018, the Philippines climbed to fourth place in Kaspersky’s worldwide ranking of countries with the highest Web threat detections from January to December 2019.
Sen. Richard J. Gordon said the Philippines needs to have its own cyber experts and stressed that the government should create plans on countering possible malicious cyber-attacks in the future.
In 1993, Gil Shwed, along with two friends, put up a network security venture they called Check Point. Now, the company is one of Israel's largest technology companies and the world's largest pure-play cybersecurity firm.
A new report from IBM Security has revealed that techniques employed by cybercriminals have evolved after decades of access to tens of billions of corporate and personal records and hundreds of thousands of software flaws.
UK-based cybersecurity firm Sophos will be ramping up recruitment drives in the Philippines, saying the local cybersecurity workforce is capable of competing globally.
Local ICT distributor VST ECS Philippines (formerly known as MSI-ECS Phils.) has announced that the company is the newest distributor in the Philippines of RSA, network security firm and a Dell subsidiary.
According to Sophos, an email carrying the World Health Organization (WHO) logo has been circulating around, asking people to go through an attached document on safety measures regarding the spreading of coronavirus.