Net Safety PH

Dear Mothers, We understand you are proud of your child. You can shout to the world that you are but please do not share your child's personal information online.

You've probably already read us saying we prefer browsers over custom apps. And there's a really good reason for it. And today we'll dive into one those reason. Less than twelve hours of the time that this post is written, waves of articles online warned users that there is a widespread Phishing scam targeting Gmail users. The reality is that it's not only Gmail that is subject to this attack. All emails are. But for the time being, we'll use Gmail as a sample to illustrate a core problem. Yes, you may have guessed it already. People's mindset, misunderstanding technology and its wrong use.

Imagine trying to remember 10 to 50 passwords or access credentials just to get access to things you need to work done. People do not really care less about cybersecurity. The problem is that oftentimes security implementations makes the system less usable for people. That is one of the reasons why it seems that people care less about cybersecurity. People don't really care less about cybersecurity, they are simply overwhelmed with the amount of decisions that they have to make to access their own data. People experience what is called 'decision fatigue'. It turns out, this is a known phenomenon in Psychology. This is exactly what people are experiencing and a research paper calls it 'security fatigue'

Only a few people will really believe warnings such as the one we're about to quote. It goes like this:

We never liked the thought of having smart things. It's uncomfortable to think that something that one could carry on a palm could accomplish something far better than us humans could. Sadly, there are things that we created that could outperform our limited physical and weary souls. Yes, we acknowledge limitations because that is also the very foundation of what we are trying to achieve at Net Safety PH. There's only so much we can do to help inform people on how to better protect themselves against the dangers an increasingly connected world. We talked about things that we created or designed to outperform us, but it doesn't really start out that way. At first, it's simply to make our lives easier. Sometimes, it also starts out as some personal automation for a personal problem but all of a sudden gets applied to everybody else's somewhat related problem. Most of them are fantastic features that makes it our daily lives. Instead of visiting a friend's home...

By no means the articles in this site have tackled or discussed deeper or technical aspects of cybersecurity simply because it is not its primary purpose. As you can read in our side panel, our purpose and goal for this is: Dedicated to providing Filipinos general information about online & offline security practices and how to better protect their data & privacy. As you can clearly read, we simply aimed at providing general information to the public, specifically our fellow Filipinos. In short, our goal was to partly address the human element of cybersecurity or information security. We approached this by deliberately/consciously NOT using technical terms in our writing, avoiding lingo specific to a work culture, and keeping it generally understandable. There's an old hyped web app in social media, Facebook in this instance, happening here in PH that once again gained attention among the general public. It's the type of web app that with a person's selfie/portra...

How many of you would like to know what your age is according to a computer? How many of you would like to know who your celebrity look-a-like is? Did you try one of those web app? How about the mobile app? Wow! you look like that actor?! Congratulations! Wait, we have ten other friends who look like that actor? What a boring world if thousands of you actually look-a-alike one famous actor! Seriously though, it is just sad how guillible people are. It didn't even actually try to properly score similarity factor. It is sad that people just gave some other people one of the most identifiable factor about them. And the most common excuse, it is just harmless fun. Fun, Vanity - among the many of our frailties that threat actors (hackers, scammers) can exploit or use against us. Yes, our search for fun and validation can be easily used against us. Biometric authentication is gaining ground in everyday use. The commonplace fingerprint authentication is ... well, commonplace. It's n...