e-Security

In Kaspersky’s phishing statistics for the first half of 2019, it showed the Philippines has the highest percent of phishing victims at 17.3%.

Kaspersky recently signed a three-year agreement with Temasek Polytechnic to provide cybersecurity courses for corporate practitioners and members of the public in Singapore.

Windows 7 is still a popular choice for consumers and businesses, despite extended support coming to an end in January 2020.

Trend Micro's local workforce has grown from just 14 engineers when it was established in the Philippines in 1998 to over 1,000 to date. That is about 17 percent of the firm's current total global workforce of around 6,000 employees.

The security firm’s third code review center will be located in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

The most serious attack vectors in the Philippines -- receiving a seriousness rating of 9 or 10 out of 10 -- were phishing, malware, and ransomware.

In some companies, it may be impossible to completely avoid remote administration. But users can reduce the risk of cyber incident by enforcing rules that only trusted professionals may have access to their computers.

Malicious Internet users are increasingly exploiting registration, subscription, and feedback forms on websites to insert spam content or phishing links into confirmation emails from respected and trustworthy companies on a global scale.

According to SophosLabs, the people who developed Baldr made it to sell to entry-level cybercriminals on the deep Web and they, in turn, targeted PC gamers as the first set victims.

Data from Kaspersky revealed that its users in the Philippines were attacked by cybercriminals through the popular attack method called drive-by download.