Leading integrated telco PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) prevented more than 190,000 attempts to open online child sexual abuse and exploitation (OSAEC) materials in March as the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reports that webpages containing Category A child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) online have more than doubled to over 51,000 since 2020. 

After blocking scammers and predators, the Philippines’ leading integrated telco network PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are now ready to support measures to curb piracy in the country.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) warn consumers that hackers are also targeting smart devices in their homes to disrupt their lives or steal their information.   

PLDT and its wireless unit, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) warn internet users that hackers are targeting employees to breach the cyber defenses of companies.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) prevented more than 5 million SMShing messages from reaching customers in the second month of the year.

PLDT and Smart’s Chief Information Security Officer Angel T. Redoble urges internet service providers and other stakeholders to band together and form a ‘Global Chain of Trust’ (GCT) to create a clean cyberspace for all users and stop the proliferation of child sexual abuse and exploitation materials (CSAEM) online.   

The Philippines’ largest integrated telecommunications network PLDT, Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. have been tapped as the exclusive telco partner of the SCROL (Safety For Children and Their Rights Online) Project by Terre des Hommes Netherlands in Asia, and the Cebu-based Bidlisiw Foundation, Inc., to combat online child sexual exploitation.

PLDT and wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. remain relentless in protecting customers against cyber-attacks. PLDT and Smart’s Cyber Security Operations Group (CSOG) prevented 1.5 billion attempts to open malicious domains in January.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are exploring opportunities to collaborate with the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) on protecting children online and in the physical world.  

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. urge the public to be wary of cybersecurity threats that could breach their devices and hack their personal data.