MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) website and precinct finder apps have been the subject of more than 3 million successful cyber attacks in an attempt to takeover the said systems to infuse malicious information
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections website and precinct finder apps have been the subject of more than 3 million successful cyber attacks in an attempt to takeover the said systems to infuse malicious information Comelec Spokesman John Rex Laudiangco said on Wednesday that the attacks were recorded from May 11 to May 14. Laudiangco said the Comelec precinct finder registered 76.81 million visits, wherein the legitimate search was about 46.17 million and 1.
On the other hand, Laudiangco said the Comelec website registered 113.41 million visits with a mitigated confirmed attacks of 1.75 million, adding that the legitimacy of the rest could not be filtered out. But Laudiangco said that none of the attempts were successful because of the security measures and constant monitoring being done by the Comelec Cybersecurity Division and the Department of Information and Communications Technology .
Website Precinct Finder Apps Faced 3M Cyberattacks During Polls
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