Acts deemed illegal under the law involve sending messages repeatedly through social media sites even though the recipient does not want to receive them and relentlessly leaving comments on someone's blog.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it is recommending that Internet users change the passwords of their email and social media accounts as part of their new year?s resolutions.
Based on global statistics for its Parental Control module, the research shows that the most attempts to visit dangerous websites by an underage user were recorded in Israel (775), followed by the UK (460), the US (352), Sweden (345) and Canada (302).
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) launched on Thursday, Dec. 8, a six-year national cybersecurity strategy that seeks to ensure the protection of critical infrastructure from cyber attacks through effective coordination with law enforcement agencies.
The Philippines ranked 12th globally for malicious codes in 2015, third in Asia Pacific and Japan in social media scams with a total of 46,377 in the same year, seventh in the region for ransomware attacks (6,356), and 14th in Asia Pacific and Japan for spear-phising, targeting wholesale trade.
What some consider to be the first email ? the first electronic message sent between two computers ? was transmitted 47 years ago, on October 29, 1969.
Analyst firm ABI Research forecasts the enterprise segment of the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) market will cross $1 billion this year as the industry sets its sight on bridging the security gap between employee authentication and corporate system security.
