The official Instagram account of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) with the handle @pcoogov has been hacked, with the previous 155 posts deleted and replaced with two camel-themed videos which were timestamped Tuesday, January 7.
According to Arkose Labs, the Philippines is the single biggest originator of attacks across both automated and malicious human traffic with US a distant second.
In a recent update on their plans to restrict data access to their platform, social media giant Facebook revealed a graph that categorized by country the people whose Facebook information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm at the center of a data privacy and electoral manipulation crisis.
The campaign website of presidential candidate Grace Poe was discovered hacked at around noon on Wednesday, April 27. The site's administrator, however, was able to restore the site immediately.
The Comelec has been given 24 hours to respond, after which a formal complaint will be filed against the poll body before the National Privacy Commission.
Telcos have proposed that only the averaged speed of the entire local ISP industry should be published by the NTC and not the individual speed of each operator.
A month after hacktivist groups Anonymous Philippines and its Leyte chapter launched defacement and other attacks on government websites over perceived inefficiency and slow pace of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) relief operations, a number of government websites are still down or defaced.
Google's Instant technology works by suggesting to a user possible phrase suggestions in realtime, much like someone finishing another person's sentence.
