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.
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 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.
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.
deSEC Qt DNS v2.0.0-rc2 is out for testing. Since v1.8.0 it has gained passphrase-protected profiles, more powerful DNS wizards, version history with restore, overhauled DNSSEC and delegation checks, and a fully offline demo mode. I'm asking for real-world feedback before v2.0.
rosbackup-packagemini v1.0.0 is now production ready. An open-source RouterOS firmware mirror built for network operators, with verified downloads, parallel synchronization, automated HTTPS, retention policies, and support for restricted and air-gapped environments.
I built Lazada Buyer Order Exporter, a Firefox extension that lets Lazada Philippines buyers export their order history to CSV, JSON, or XLSX. It's now on Mozilla Add-ons, and it saves you from paging through orders by hand when you want to keep records or organize purchases.
I've released frigate-top v1.0.0, an htop-style terminal dashboard for Frigate NVR hosts. It shows CPU, memory, I/O wait, disk, NVIDIA GPU, and network errors alongside skipped frames, detector inference time, camera status, recent detections, and an estimated camera capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.