A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular messenger — WhatsApp — allowed hackers to eavesdrop on users, read their encrypted chats, turn on the microphone and camera, and install spyware that allows even further surveillance, such as browsing through the victim’s photos and videos, accessing their contact...
Globe Telecom and Puregold Price Club, Inc. will again join hands to reach out to aspiring entrepreneurs at the 14th Puregold Negosyo Convention 2019, which will be held on May 16-19, 2019 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. As Puregold’s exclusive telecommunications partner for the past decade, Globe...
Following the arrest in 2018 of a number of suspected leaders of the notorious Fin7/Carbanak cyber-gang, the group was believed to have disbanded. But Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a number of new attacks by the same groups using GRIFFON malware. According to the company’s experts, Fin7 might have extended...
With 90% of people in employment going online several times a day, it can be hard for most workers to keep their private and work-life separate during the working day (and beyond). The recently published Global Privacy Report from Kaspersky Lab reveals that one-in-two (59%) consumers choose to hide social...
In the first three months of 2019, Kaspersky Lab researchers observed an active landscape of advanced threat operations that was centered mainly on South East Asia, increasingly influenced by geopolitics, and which featured cryptocurrency and commercial spyware attacks as well as a major supply-chain campaign. These and other trends are...
The release of the finale of the epic two-part movie featuring the Avengers has attracted lots of attention, shattering box office records. Kaspersky Lab’s content filtering experts have found that cybercriminals could not resist the urge to use the movie for fraud and money theft. To do so,...
Social Entrepreneurship Engagement & Development program drives eco-sustainability through economic empowerment. April 26, 2019: Manila, Philippines — Spearheading a movement towards environmental conservation this Earth Month, Impact Hub Manila with Forest Foundation Philippines launches a local scaling program for community-based social enterprises. The Social Entrepreneurship Engagement & Development (SEED) program...
Businesses across the world are struggling to secure their data due to employees not recognizing their responsibility for digital clutter; the proliferation of digital documents and files without thought for managing the security consequences. The global report “Sorting out digital clutter in business” from Kaspersky Lab found a number of...
To help businesses in their digitalization journey, Globe myBusiness takes its partnership with micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to the next level by establishing the Globe myBusiness Corner, a dedicated area in select Globe Stores which features an interactive entrepreneur’s corner and special one-on-one consultation sessions every Tuesday. “Part...
Recent data from Kaspersky Lab show that close to 32 million internet-borne threats were detected and blocked by Kaspersky Lab among its users in the Philippines in 2018 setting out a growth of over 200 percent from 2017. Internet threats and malicious hosting incidents remain the top two attacks that...
Kaspersky Lab has upgraded its Kaspersky Internet Security for Android with Privacy Alert – a new feature that warns the users if their private information is being monitored via commercially available spyware. While this kind of software is deemed to be legal, the program’s presence is often both unwanted and...
With the amount of personal data shared on the internet continuing to grow, some of us are resigned to think that any attempts to maintain online privacy will be doomed to failure. Kaspersky Lab has recently discovered that one-in-three (32.3%) consumers do not know how they can fully protect their...
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