Newsletter: What makes a messaging app secure?

[THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE]

We’ve published multiple comparisons of secure messaging apps with end-to-end encryption, shared recommended settings, and described the respective flaws of these apps. But what about folks who want secure messengers but who aren’t exactly tech-savvy? This blogpost is just for them – based as it is on an extensive study and published report entitled What Is Secure? by a group of experts from the agencies Tech Policy Press and Convocation Research and Design.

Two PH teams in GiveSIGHT and World MAQI are finalists in global space data competition for COVID-19

07/31/2021 03:30:48 PM

Our two teams had been recently selected by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as global finalists for the all-virtual Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon held last this past June. 

TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp are the most-used apps kids used —Kaspersky study

06/12/2021 08:37:03 AM

A recent study by Kaspersky Safe Kids has revealed what children around the world that over the past year 'til present, their interest was about “software, audio and video” and “e-commerce” have grown, while “internet communication media” and “computer games” have decreased by a bit. 

Newsletter: Pinoy app addressing pandemic impact won the Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge

08/23/2020 01:44:48 AM

Author's Note: As cliche as it sounds, Pinoy Pride has made it again, but in the mobile and pandemic-ish way – and I mean it in good context, huh? 

Look. There's a group of our data analysts from CirroLytix who made it big to the COVID-19 themed Space App Challenge organized by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). This makes up for being one of two Filipino groups who made it as global finalists.

Know more of them by reading the press release below.

Newsletter: The rise of adware: Kaspersky found three compromised popular mobile apps in three months

06/02/2020 03:44:35 PM

Author's Note: There are three mobile apps that are apparently, compromised in over a quarter. That is what Kaspersky has found on this edition of Newsletter.

These apps, containing modules of the harmful unwanted software called “adware” is potentially harming millions of users. How did the researchers of this global cybersecurity company find them? Read more of that story below: