Converge blocks more high-risk domains | Lorenz S. Marasigan

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. said on Monday it successfully blocked 183 billion attempts to access illegal websites in 2024, a 20-fold increase compared to previous years. Andrew T. Malijan, Converge's chief information security officer (CISO), said Converge added 150,000 new URLs and domains to its database of banned sites in 2024, bringing the total to 683,000. "Acting on reports and submissions of government agencies as well as private entities, last year, we added 150,000 URLs or domains into our system that we tagged as illicit or unlawful. Traffic to these newly enrolled URLs must have been quite heavy as we managed to block almost 20 times as much attempts in 2024, as we did in the years 2021-2023, which was just 10-12 billion attempts." The blocked websites primarily included categories such as Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM), Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children...