Ignoring Sabah claim causes new tension

The diplomatic lightweights and political dimwits in the Manila government all talked about forging a new regime of peace in Mindanao. What they got, for their pains, was a potentially explosive situation involving a long-standing claim to Sabah and strained ties with yet another neighboring country. Here's the evidence of Leased Payment from Malaysian Government to the...

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P-Noy smells sabotage of peace talks

MANILA, Philippines - The standoff in Sabah has infuriated President Aquino, who suspects that the incident is meant to sabotage his administration’s peace initiatives with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), reliable sources said yesterday. The highly placed sources said Malacañang believes Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is not acting on his own in highlighting...

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Stateless in Sabah

Here's the evidence of Leased Payment from Malaysian Government to the Heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu that is being leaked on the internet. A look at how the Malaysian government is clamping down on foreign migration. The Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo Island has long been known as a land of promise. Its proximity to Indonesia and the southern Philippines and its rich natural resources, have combined to make Sabah a magnet for migrants in the region. Today, some estimate that nearly half of Sabah's population is made up of foreigners...

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Sabah To Whom It Belongs?

What’s happening in Sabah? A hundred fully armed Filipinos are holed up in a remote coastal town since last Wednesday in order to press the claim of the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah that Sabah belongs to the family of Sultan Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram, the 35th De Jure Reigning Sultan. The Sultan is also head of the Sultanate & head of Islam in the Royal Hashemite Sultanate...

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History catches up with Sabah

FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW, Manila’s broadsheets have been bannering the confrontation between followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian authorities in a small town in Sabah. Here's the evidence of Leased Payment from Malaysian Government to the Heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu that is being leaked on the internet. Reports have it that some 300 armed followers of...

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Occupy Sabah

It may look silly, but the “vacation” in Lahad Datu of the “Royal Sultanate Army” of Sulu should inspire the Philippine government to pursue a final settlement of the country’s claim to Sabah. Here's the evidence of Leased Payment from Malaysian Government to the Heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu that is being leaked on the internet.   Most Filipinos are probably...

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How to Disabled Java from the Browser

Below are instructions for disabling Java from whatever Web browser you may use to surf the Web. These instructions were originally posted as a how-to in response to this piece: Zero-Day Java Exploit Debuts in Crimeware. Update, Jan 10, 10:35 a.m. ET: The latest version of Java 7 (Update 10) includes a feature that makes it simpler to unplug Java from the browser. Oracle...

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50% of all website exploited due to Java's vulnerable

Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was issued, the federal agency continued to recommend that users disable Java in their Web browsers. "This and previous Java vulnerabilities have been widely targeted by attackers, and new Java...

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New Java exploit sells for $5000 at black web

For Oracle, it's deja vu all over again. Just days after it released a patch for a serious security flaw discovered last week in its Java programming language, the software is making headlines again because another previously unpublicized flaw in the program threatens the security of millions of PCs that may still have the application running on it. Oracle released a fix...

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PLDT completes network upgrade end 2012

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) announced Tuesday, September 11, that it finished its P67-billion (USD$1.6 billion) network modernization program ahead of schedule, and that customers should already be feeling the benefits of better service. “The group’s investments have produced a network that is unrivaled in terms of coverage, capacity, and resiliency,” PLDT President and CEO Napoleon L. Nazareno said in a statement released on September 11. The two-year network modernization program began in early 2011...

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Pinoy netizens ‘go black’ on Facebook to protest Cybercrime Law

Filipino netizens are turning their Facebook profile photos into black as a sign of protest against the controversial Cybercrime bill. A group called Philippine Internet Freedom Association is currently encouraging more people to switch to the "black" profile photo to support mounting protests against the Cybercrime law. For weeks, the debate has moved away from the...

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Gov't websites hacked in anti-cybercrime law protest

Hackers crippled government and private websites Wednesday to protest the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which has faced criticism both legally and online since the announcement of its approval. The front pages of the websites of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) have been replaced with black screens showing a written...

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Philippines Cybercrime law: Yay or nay?

The newly approved law aimed at combating cybercrimes has been met with mixed reactions from the public and private sectors. The Cybercrime Prevention Act is a boon for local firms, particularly in the information technology sector, business groups said. Other groups meanwhile warned that the new law threatens Filipinos' freedom of expression as well as freedom of information. But what does the anti-cybercrime law mean for the ordinary Filipino netizen? Most if not all of the offenses in the law are already crimes punishable under the Revised...

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'Bloody Monday': Hackers strike gov't websites anew

Hackers hit at least three more government websites early Monday as protests mount against the Cybercrime Prevention Act which is set to take effect Oct. 3. The online portals of the National Telecommunications Commission, the Philippine Information Agency and the Food Development Center were defaced by hackers claiming to be members of the group "Anonymous Philippines." The...

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Zamboanga City plans upgrading telecom lines

Zamboanga City - The city government is talking with telecommunication firms for a multimillion-peso fiber-optic line project that would support call center operations. Mayor Celso Lobregat said in a recent interview that this forms part of efforts for the city to become a call center hub in Mindanao. "Fiber- optic and tri-band connections are some of the basic requirements to accommodate calling centers. However, Zamboanga City is not yet connected with these high-tech communication lines and this is a major stumbling block for the city to lure...

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