Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi.
The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their account and other information so that this may be used as [...]

The Philippine Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 1697, called “The Anti-Theft and Robbery of Portable Telecommunication Devices Act of 2007,” prescribing stiffer penalties for gadget theft.
According to the bill, “any person convicted of the crime of theft and robbery of a portable telecommunication device shall be punished by the penalty next higher in degree [...]

Sony’s at it again.
As this report from Infoworld says:
“A line of USB drives sold by Sony installs files in a hidden folder that can be accessed and used by hackers, a Finnish security company charged Monday, raising the specter of a replay of the fiasco that hit Sony’s music arm two years ago when researchers [...]

A few days back GMA Tv News Saksi reported on fraudsters operating in Friendster. My Apologies to the non-Filipino’s viewing this as the report is in Filipino.
Basically it went like this: It started by a user receiving friendly messages from a friend from abroad in her profile page which elevated to an [...]

The popularity today of unlimited texting schemes are making it easy and cheap for scammers to mass-send text messages to other users within their networks. For instance, for about PhP 50, you can get five days’ worth of unlimited texting, or so. How many messages do you think these scammers can send in that time? I think in a day, they can send hundreds, manually. What more if their phone or SIMs are connected to computers?

Are unlimited texting schemes a boon for scammers?

A couple of bloggers have revealed a security loophole in Xoom, which begs the question: does your bank mask the account numbers?

Sending an unencrypted email through the internet is like sending a postcard. It exposes your message to the world. Freenigma aims to solve that.

Can we survive gadgetless travel?

I’m not much of a Friendster fan, especially since I’ve had my share of viewing sucky and crappy profile page layouts. In my list of web apps with the highest propensity for abuse in terms of design/layout, Friendster’s up there at number two, just below MySpace.
But I do use it occasionally to stalk network with [...]

Fellow PTB blogger J. Angelo Racoma writes in Forever Geek about laptop theft.  Unfortunately, the original artcle gave all the tips but didn’t specify the tools.  So consider this an addendum to two already excellent articles…