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 Twelve days into 2023, there had already been three major outages on three international airports. The first one was the outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and it affected air traffic in the whole country, stranding thousands of passengers. Days after, there was similar outage in the US that also affected flights nationwide also stranding thousands of passengers. Then the same thing happened in Canada ! The first time it happened, I can accept that it is an isolated case however simplistic the explanation was.  But three in a row? I think something more serious is happening here.  I hope I'm wrong BUT this is by far quite alarming and my "spider sense" is tingling!  I hope I am wrong here though. I will closely follow this and write about what I discover.

A lot has happened since the Philippine SIM Registration Act has been implemented.  There are people who are for and against its implementation.  That is an issue that can only be resolved in time.  However there is a bigger issue has stemmed from it.  The law is now being leveraged by threat actors that seeks to gather personal information from their potential victims. While reviewing my SPAM folder for legitimate messages that have slipped into the cracks, I noticed this interesting sender. A casual look makes it appear as if it came from GCash, a service I use for my digital wallet needs.  Although the display name says "admin@gcashmobile.com", it was sent "via sendgrid".  Just to let you know, legitimate emails from GCash comes from the "@gcash.com" email domain so this is already a big red flag.   Here is the body of the message: Looks convincing, right?  However, one thing that everyone should be aware of is this: Companies will always refer to you b

  Hot on the the heels of the string of controversies hounding Twitter after the Musk Takeover, this happens.  So what happens next?  I did an immediate change of password and enabled multi-factor authentication. So if you are on Twitter, please change your password immediately even if you haven't receive any similar notice and do yourself a favor, please enable multi-factor authentication too.  This is for your own good :D