MANILA - President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has tapped Alexander Ramos as the new head of an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in charge of all functions related to cybersecurity. Ramos has been appointed as Executive Director V of the DICT's Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a Palace briefing. Malacanang has yet to release Ramos' appointment paper. Prior to his new appointment, Ramos served as a senior cyber security adviser at the DICT. Apart from Ramos, Mary Rose Magsaysay has also been designated as CICC deputy executive director, Cruz-Angeles said. Other new CICC appointees include Patricia May Abejo, Rojun Hosillos and Alvin Miro Navarro who will all hold the rank of Director IV. The CICC, created upon the approval of Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, is responsible for formulating a National Cybersecurity Plan and fac
The child protection platform of leading telecommunications giant PLDT has blocked more than one billion attempts to access prohibited online child sexual abuse materials content by Filipino netizens in just six months of full operations.
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A STATE-of-the-art cybercrime laboratory was launched on Friday by the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) that will focus initially on crimes related to Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC). The Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) was launched with the purpose of allowing the CICC to monitor…
STATE-OF-THE-ART LAB. Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) Executive Director Cezar Mancao II (middle) led the inauguration of the country's first Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) at the CICC office in Quezon City on Friday (June 17, 2022). The laboratory, he said, will be used to boost the country's fight against online sexual abuse and the exploitation of children. (PNA photo by Raymond Carl Dela Cruz) MANILA - The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has launched the country's first and state-of-the-art Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) to help the country's fight against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). Speaking at the inauguration of the DFPAL at the CICC office in Quezon City on Friday, CICC Executive Director Cezar Mancao II said the digital laboratory is the flagship program of the CICC under the Duterte administration and will mostly be used to investigate and solve