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Private and public sector organizations in Asia should prioritize partnerships and cooperation to build a substantial technology talent pool to be ready against escalating cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky announced on Monday, Sept. 27, the appointment of Charleen Caban as territory channel manager for the Philippines.

Based on Kaspersky’s telemetry, brute-force attacks versus Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) among its users in the Philippines showed an increase of 98.41% in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020.

Security firm Kaspersky has unveiled a free platform with tips and tricks for small businesses to help them quickly improve their organization’s security.

There is now an urgent need for businesses to reconsider their infrastructure, their business model, and their ways of doing transactions.

Experts from e-security firm Kaspersky have uncovered a rare, wide-scale advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign against users in Southeast Asia, most notably in the Philippines and Myanmar.

Accessing dating sites is safe, but users still need to be careful so that they won’t fall victim to “doxing”, which is the practice of sharing or revealing in public “previously private information in order to shame or harm the victim.”

In the Philippines, the top five most popular apps and websites for Filipino children are YouTube (29.40%), TikTok (14.47%), Messenger (13.51%), Roblox (8.71%), and Facebook (8.50%).

The National Computer Emergency Response Team (N-CERT) and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky have recommended ways on how to prevent becoming a victim of the malicious tagging in Facebook.

Identified as the most common malicious software (malware) detected in mobile devices of Filipinos are Trojans.