Cyber attack

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First it was the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. This week it was the turn of the Philippine Statistics Authority to confirm a data breach. People are wondering: how will hackers use the stolen PhilHealth and PSA data?

The two agencies have universal population coverage. Cyber experts had previously warned that such agencies would be the preferred targets of hackers.We now know that the PhilHealth data breach is more serious than it would have us believe.

Monkey and SpongeBob images have been accepted for SIM registration, and the law does not cover popular messaging apps such as Viber and Telegram. The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines has lamented that as a consequence, smaller hospitals might soon be unable to accept PhilHealth-funded cases – meaning all patients will have to pay out of pocket for hospital services.

Cyber warriors can sabotage electrical grids, for example, or wreak havoc on air traffic control, paralyzing air travel or causing catastrophic accidents. There lies our problem… the capability isn’t there. The law enforcement anti-cybercrime units seem overwhelmed. Lawmakers are stripping or cutting the confidential funds of the Department of Information and Communications Technology reportedly because of poor fund utilization rate.

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Spreading like wildfire, sinister operators in the “dark web” from here and abroad have initiated attacks on the most vulnerable targets they could find in Philippine cyber space.

 

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