1 week Ago By Michelle Abad
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rapplerAds.displayAd( "mobile-middle-1" );MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) was able to block some 75,000 attempts to hack the online system that the poll body is using to implement internet voting for overseas Filipinos, the poll body said on Friday, April 11.“For your information, 75,000 more or less ang attempts to hack the system, [na] hindi naman nagiging successful so far.
Ano ang dahilan? Trained ‘yung mga tauhan namin, maganda ‘yung sistema, 24 hours a day po ang pagbabantay namin,” Comelec Chairman George Garcia said at a press briefing.(For your information, there have been more or less 75,000 attempts to hack the system that have been unsuccessful so far. Why? Our people are trained, we have a good system, and we monitor it 24 hours a day.
)The Comelec has time and again stood by the safety and security of the online voting system amid fears that the votes cast by overseas voters might be compromised. At a press briefing at the National Technical Support Center on Thursday, April 10, Garcia also assured the public that Comelec is ready for any spike in cyberattacks during the voting period.“We learned our experience from what happened in 2017, since the commission was attacked and there was a data breach,” he said.
Pro V&V, the Comelec’s international certification entity partner, noted the difficulty in compromising the system when it completed the source code in March. Pro V&V president and director Jack Cobb had said all packets that go through the system are encrypted, and transmissions are protected by firewalls and virtual private networks.The Philippines will be implementing internet voting for the first time in the history of its elections for over 1.
2 million Filipinos registered to vote overseas.As of Friday, some 40,000 Filipinos overseas have pre-enrolled to vote beginning Sunday, April 13. The month-long voting period will last until election day, May 12.
– Rappler.comMust Watch [Ask Your Comelec] How easy, safe is it to enroll for internet voting?.
