by AskSonnie | Jan 21, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks
That is, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) A concerted and coordinated attack, and done in the midst of another disaster [i.e. when emergency systems are cracked and taken down during massive flooding], can lead to a...
by AskSonnie | Jan 18, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Facebook
Update 1/20/11: Facebook delays implementation Recent development in Facebook shows that your home address and phone numbers are now shared to 3rd party developers as announced in their developers blog. Sophos questioned the move saying the dangers outweigh the...
by AskSonnie | Jan 16, 2011 | Cyber Risks
Update: GMA 7 embraced our advocacy and launched “think before you click” campaign If you are a parent, should you be worried if your kid is spending a lot of time in the computer? If it is affecting his schooling, social life and household chore, then the...
by AskSonnie | Jan 13, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Internet Resources, Malware/Mal Apps
Update 1.21.11: An example of the ethical issue of hacking: Online Group Denies Ipad Hacking Update 1/16/11: The server of my 2 sites has been under attack for 2 days, affecting hundreds of sites. The black hat hackers redirected all the sites to an “ad”,...
by AskSonnie | Jan 11, 2011 | Press, Reviews
Yahoo! Philippines- Fit To Post, covered our 1st roadshow [click image to go to the article page] and cited one of our projects this year, that is to partner with a private school to pilot an “anti cyberbullying program for the Philippines. We believe that...
by AskSonnie | Jan 10, 2011 | Cyber Bullying, Cyber Risks, Parenting
In this post, I will discuss a potential future big problem in PH, specially among kids who have access to the wild wild web at home and school. It’s only a matter of time before this will hit our local headlines. One of the main causes of teen suicide in...
by AskSonnie | Jan 9, 2011 | Photos, Watcha Webtrap Seminars
On Jan 8, 2011, Web Safety PH trooped to Fr. Peter Young Auditorium of St. Jude Catholic School, one of the premiere schools in the Philippines, to facilitate the 14th Run of Watcha Webtrap! parents edition. About 200 parents came, mostly chinese entrepreneurs...
by AskSonnie | Jan 5, 2011 | Advocacy, Roadmap
Last year has been a good year for Web Safety PH, the idea started on June 2010 and with the help of Facebook buddies, the project jumpstarted and we had the 1st seminar on July 10 at Microsoft Philippines Auditorium. By the end of 2010, these are our...
by AskSonnie | Jan 3, 2011 | Government
Senator Edgardo J. Angara is pushing for the passage in Congress of the Cybercrime Prevention Bill as the published reports showed an exponential increase in the number of internet users in the Philippines. As a result, a steady rise in online crimes was also...
by AskSonnie | Dec 30, 2010 | Beware, Internet Resources
In my post yesterday, we discussed about McAfee’s prediction on cyber threats for 2011. Today, allow me to share Symantecs [the company behind Norton AV’s] security predictions for 2011: New Technologies, New Challenges As technologies become smarter and...
