e-Security

While 91.47 percent of consumers in Southeast Asia check a site?s security before partaking in e-commerce or other activities, those in the Philippines appear more concerned, with 96.30 percent checking to see if a site is secured before initiating a transaction.

Defenses must evolve and match the attacks by cybercriminals as the world of technology is rapidly changing.

During a DDoS attack, cybercriminals flood a website with traffic coming from numerous requests in order to overwhelm its server.

Kaspersky Lab has launched the ?Secure Your Ferrari Experience? for the second year running, offering five winners from Asia Pacific a chance to visit the ?Home of Ferrari? in Maranello, Italy.

The security solution prototype demonstrates the possibilities of interference-proof communication between car components, the car, and its external connected infrastructure, making connected cars secure-by-design.

The Goondus Awards website, which features the submissions anonymously, highlights real life incidents where a na?ve or ill-informed Internet practice led to some form of misfortune.

The poll, which covered the Philippines for the first time, also showed that Filipino women are more concerned about personal security than men.

The concerns brought to light by the survey highlight the fears people now have when going online.

More than half of the Internet users in the Philippines have been hacked or infected with malware during the last six months of 2016, according to the Kaspersky Cybersecurity Index.

To overcome the need for investigators to travel far and wide to gather evidence from infected computers after a cyberattack, a Kaspersky Lab expert has developed a software tool that can remotely collect vital data without risk of its contamination or loss.