The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will launch short-term courses and long-term programs on cybersecurity in 2023 to help build the country’s cybersecurity workforce.
The Department of Budget and Management said the transfer of the P1.1 billion budget for the national broadband project from the DICT to the MMDA is not authorized.
Ivan John Uy’s appointment as Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is reportedly in danger of being rejected by the Commission on Appointments (CA) because he gave dismissed Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) chief Jose Vicente Salazar a plum post at the agency, Politiko has learned.
Northern Samar Rep. Paul Daza questioned the P3 billion to P4 billion funds transferred by the DICT to the MMDA and several local government units for the free wi-fi project.
Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy has vowed to step up the agency’s budget utilization amid the delayed implementation of the free Wi-Fi project by the past administration.
International syndicates could be behind the personalized text scams enticing recipients to apply for bogus jobs or play games, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said.
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte on Thursday called on the Departments of Trade and Industry (DTI) and of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to work in tandem in protecting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from cyber attacks.
Senator Grace Poe on Thursday called on the Department of Information and Communications Technology and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to escalate their efforts to halt rampant text scams victimizing many unsuspecting mobile phone users in the country.
While only the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) can officially confirm or deny if such hacking indeed occurred, our in-house Comelec-accredited cyber-security team is currently conducting its own investigation given their limited accessibility, after I asked them to exert whatever effort to get initial information.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is in talks with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to prevent the shutdown of 882 free WiFi sites in the country.
