Solon urges Congress: Speed up passage of bill vs cyber crime
11/05/2011Sen. Edgardo Angara once again called on Congress to fast-track the passage of the bill which aims to protect individuals and institutions from cybercrime attacks as he expressed alarm over a series of cyber attacks on foreign government agencies and companies.
According to recent reports, Japan’s parliament has come under cyber attack again, apparently from the same emails linked to a China-based server that have already hit several lawmakers’ computers.
Reports further revealed that malicious emails were found on computers used in the upper chamber of the Japanese parliament. Politicians’ computers and a Lower House server had contracted a “Trojan horse” virus containing a program that allowed a China-based server to steal passwords and other information..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111105nat5.html
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tama. kailangan na talaga nitong bill na ito.
"“The current laws on cyber-security are not enough to address the threats of common cybercrimes,” he explained. “For instance, Republic Act 8792 or the E-Commerce Act, only penalizes hacking, cracking and piracy. It does not cover all the forms of cybercrime, such as cyber-fraud and similar offenses."
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