Net Safety PH

Did you know that there is a worldwide association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world?

There are many Threats to Internet Safety for Filipinos and our government have long started passing laws that would enable us to counter the effects, prevent it from happening, and be made aware of its consequence. Let's start by understanding the official and legal definitions of these threats. Among them are: Cyberbullying, Online Scam, Online Libel, Identity Theft, and Photo & Video Voyeurism

Just the other day, we posted Attack Example - Phishing - SMS Based - Smishing and yesterday someone in Cagayan de Oro using facebook alerted people of a Scam Modus Operandi (M.O.) Do we think it's a scam? Yes it is.

The only thing constant in this world is change and common sense is actually not common.

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...