Video Coverage of Manila Masters Presscon

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Manila Masters Presscon held on May 24, 2017 at Solaire featured the owner of Mineski himself, Ronald "Rhom" Rhobins, considered as the Father of eSports in the Philippines.

Partnering with Mineski are PLDT Home Fibr and Smart, plus TV5, who will all actively play an important role in holding what can be called as the biggest DotA 2 Tournament in Asia.

We did a video coverage of the event, including the Question and Answer portion with panelists coming from the said sponsors or partners, as well as Rhom himself, so you could all just watch and listen to their exact words.

The other members of the panelists, who also spoke individually on stage, are:

John Henry Yanez, Head of Home Business Group of PLDT Fibr

Victor Carlo Endaya, VP for Brand Strategy and Communications of Smart

Lloyd Manoloto, Head of Marketing and Digital of TV5, in behalf of Chot Reyes, President of TV5

Marlon Marcelo, Mineski VP for Marketing and Events

There was a sixth guy among the panel but  we didn't get his name.


Meanwhile, Carlo Ople, VP of Digital Marketing Strategy, also spoke infront of the stage to share his previous experience in gaming and some thoughts related to the event. He did not joined the panelists.

Below are the videos we took from the event. We apologize for the shaky videos due to the absence of a stabilizer and tripod..

Video Coverage of MSAP's 2017 Media Congress Ascendant

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The Media Specialists of the Philippines (MSAP) brings the 2017 Media Congress to Baguio City on September 6-9, 2017. Celebrating it's 3rd year, this will be the first out-of-town Media Congress event for the organizers. It will be the first to have a 3 ½ -day event and will be brought outside Metro Manila, so we are thinking this may even be their grandest so far.

With a theme they dubbed as ASCENDANT, the event remains to be the biggest and largest gathering of the country’s media experts and practitioners that's expected to bring in more than 2,000 delegates. This year’s theme is designed to talk about the rising power of media, influencing and dominating behavior, culture and business and harnessing this for nation building and the greater good.

At the press launch held at Makati Shangri-La on May 23, 2017, we were told that the congress promises to feature global and local speakers with fresh voices, presenting different perspectives, and new lenses in our industry.

How we wish we could join this prestigious event, but the cost for a lowly blogger like us may be a bit too high. The travel alone to the venue, plus the hotel accommodations would break the bank already. Unlike media practitioners that could be sponsored by their publication, network or media outfit, most bloggers would rely on their own savings, and though we may have the money to spend, it may leave us low on budget for the following days to come.

Hopefully, there would be someone to sponsor our team or we could have some form of ex-deal with the organizers. Yet, we already tried to reach out to the people who invited us to the launch, but still we have not received any reply.

Sophos on Preventive Measures on SIM Swapping

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SIM swapping is the process of replacing your existing SIM with a new SIM, moving your existing number to the new SIM.

If your mobile phone gets stolen, a SIM swap is a great security benefit as you can quickly invalidate the SIM in the stolen phone, so the phone thief is unable to rack up calls on your phone. However if the crook is the one perpetrating the SIM swap, then he/she has access to your incoming calls, messages and passwords.

With SIM swap, attackers can change your profile settings, add new payment recipient accounts belonging to accomplices, and pay money out of your account. As the account settings are changed, it is harder for banks to spot the fraud.

Sophos recommends the following measures to prevent SIM swapping:

  

• Watch out for phishing emails or fake websites that crooks use to acquire your usernames and passwords. 
• Avoid obvious answers to account security questions. Consider using a password manager to generate absurd and unguessable answers to the sort of questions that crooks might otherwise work out from your social media accounts.
• Use an on-access (real time) anti-virus and keep it up-to-date. One common way for crooks to figure out usernames and passwords is by means of keylogger malware, which lies low until you visit specific web pages such as your bank’s logon page, then springs into action to record what you type while you’re logging on. A good real time anti-virus will help you to block dangerous web links, infected email attachments and malicious downloads.
• Be suspicious if your phone drops back to “emergency calls only” unexpectedly. Check with friends or colleagues on the same network to see if they are having problems. If you need to, borrow a friend’s phone to contact your mobile provider to ask for help. Be prepared to attend a shop or service centre in person if you can, and take ID and other evidence with you to back yourself up.
• Consider switching from SMS-based 2FA codes to codes generated by an authenticator app. This means the crooks have to steal your phone and figure out your lock code in order to access the app that generates your unique sequence of logon codes.