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Equinix Bought Its Way Into the Philippines. Here's What That Tells Us

Equinix Bought Its Way Into the Philippines. Here's What That Tells Us

Equinix entered the Philippines by buying three TIM data centers for $183M instead of building from scratch, while PLDT defers its Vitro REIT IPO to 2027. A network consultant's take on what global players buying in means for local colocation buyers.

PLDT's Vitro Data Center REIT Moves IPO to 2027

PLDT's Vitro Data Center REIT Moves IPO to 2027

PLDT has deferred the Vitro data center REIT IPO to 2027, citing rising interest rates. Its CEO now targets the first half and still eyes about $400M for 49%. What it signals for local data center capacity and government data under EO 119.

Opinion: The SAFE Kids Act Trades Children's Privacy for a Headline

Opinion: The SAFE Kids Act Trades Children's Privacy for a Headline

The House passed HB 11566, the SAFE Kids Act, 287–3. It is not law yet and goes to bicam with SB 2424. My view: it forces ID and biometric age checks, hands children's data to the platforms that already failed them, and is blind activism. It should be stopped.

DICT Secretary Aguda Resigns as Ombudsman Probes "Ghost Internet" in Free Wi-Fi Program

DICT Secretary Aguda Resigns as Ombudsman Probes "Ghost Internet" in Free Wi-Fi Program

DICT Secretary Henry Aguda has resigned while the Ombudsman probes alleged "ghost internet" projects in the Free Wi-Fi program. No successor yet. A network consultant's view on why paid-for connectivity should be measurable by default.

Filipino Scam Victims Lose Money Through E-Wallets Far More Than Their ASEAN Neighbors

Filipino Scam Victims Lose Money Through E-Wallets Far More Than Their ASEAN Neighbors

AMRO data shows 74 percent of Filipino scam victims who lost money paid through e-wallets, more than double the 34 percent ASEAN average, while only 20 percent of ASEAN victims got any money back. The ASEAN Foundation also flags the Philippines as a new scam hotspot.

Japan's Ruling Party Calls a Wave of Cyberattacks a "State of Emergency in Cyberspace"

Japan's Ruling Party Calls a Wave of Cyberattacks a "State of Emergency in Cyberspace"

Japan's ruling party calls it "a state of emergency in cyberspace" after Times Car leaked 6.6M accounts and a ransomware attack on SoftBank's IDC Frontier hit 495 customers, including JR East. What happened, and why it matters for Philippine networks.

Cybersecurity News: PoC Released for Telegram Desktop Flaw Enabling Account Takeover

Cybersecurity News: PoC Released for Telegram Desktop Flaw Enabling Account Takeover

A public PoC targets CVE-2026-107181, a Telegram Desktop IPC injection flaw before 7.2.9. A crafted link opened outside the app can leak local files, including session keys, and lead to account takeover. Update to 7.2.9 now.

SecurityWeek: New Claude Code Attack Shows Why AI Coding Agents Need Guardrails

SecurityWeek: New Claude Code Attack Shows Why AI Coding Agents Need Guardrails

SecurityWeek describes an attack that uses harmless-looking repositories and indirect instructions to trick Claude Code into running attacker-controlled commands. Once AI coding agents can clone, install, and execute, they're part of the attack surface and need boundaries and isolation.

Conniva: A Smarter Approach to Network Troubleshooting

Conniva: A Smarter Approach to Network Troubleshooting

A sneak peek at Conniva, a new network diagnostics platform I'm building. It combines automated diagnostics, secure data collection, and local AI assisted analysis to help support engineers identify network issues faster while simplifying the troubleshooting experience for users.

rosbackup-ng Reimagined: From Backup Script to RouterOS Management Platform

rosbackup-ng Reimagined: From Backup Script to RouterOS Management Platform

What began as a simple RouterOS backup script has evolved into a self-hosted management platform. This post explores the major refactor behind rosbackup-ng, its new modular architecture, the optional web platform, and what's next before the 1.0 release.

Optimising Your Proxmox Cluster with ProxLB - Smart and Lightweight VM/CT Scheduling for Maximum Efficiency

Optimising Your Proxmox Cluster with ProxLB - Smart and Lightweight VM/CT Scheduling for Maximum Efficiency

Discover how the open-source tool ProxLB fills the gap in Proxmox VE clusters by automatically rebalancing VMs and containers based on memory, CPU or local-disk usage - with affinity/anti-affinity rules, maintenance mode and CI/CD integration.

After the Storm - What the GCash Data-Leak Allegation Teaches Us About Cyber Hygiene

After the Storm - What the GCash Data-Leak Allegation Teaches Us About Cyber Hygiene

The National Privacy Commission found no sufficient evidence of a GCash data breach, and the leaked dataset didn't match GCash's systems. Still, the scare dented public trust. Here's what happened, what it means, and the basic steps users should take to protect their accounts.