MANILA, Philippines – The importance of, and threats against, cybersecurity became an important issue overnight in the country due to the recent Commission on Elections data breach that resulted in personal information of about 55 million voters being leaked.
To Filipinos, defacement of websites to push a message of protest has perhaps been the most common cybersecurity threat. But other types of cyberattacks have been attempted not just in the country, but globally for years now. (READ: The state of cybersecurity in the Philippines)
For example, did you know that there were 781 recorded data breach incidents in 2015 alone? In the Philippines, meanwhile, most of the complaints received by authorities are related to online scams. For the full article click here
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