29/06/2025
๐ก๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ก-๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ดโ๐น ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ
๐๐ข๐ข๐: Leyte Normal University (LNU) students bagged both the champion and first runner-up titles in the regional leg of the ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Awareness Video Competition 2025 during the National ICT Month Culminating Activity at The Tropics, McArthur Park Palo, Leyte, June 24.
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (BAPoS) students namely Kirby Lagare, Jaff Jaro, Jerry Dwan Surpia, Cyrus John Delloro, and Rasheed Luke Abordo, along with Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) student Danielle Louie Doculan and their adviser, Andrew Siguan, were hailed as champions of the competition with their entry titled "CTRL+HACK."
Said team will represent Eastern Visayas in the national leg in July 2025, where they will compete against other regional champions from across the country.
Meanwhile, securing the first runner-up spot with their entry โClickbait,โ were BSIT students namely Khanley Mesa, Gwyneth Calo, and Paul Lorenz Pablo, with their adviser Richie Cabangon.
In an interview with Surpia, one of the members of the winning team, he said that their film was inspired by how cybersecurity threats often lie not in elite hackers, but in the users themselves.
โYung film po was largely inspired by the Man vs Himself conflict. CTRL+HACK was a shortfilm po about hacking and its threat. Pero at its core, it is a cautionary tale po na sometimes, the greatest threat to cybersecurity natin is not the elite hackers or at least not solely themโit's the user's own negligence,โ Surpia stated.
According to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Region 8 page, the competition was part of the ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Working Groupโs Joint Awareness Activities 2025, which aimed to promote cybersecurity awareness through educational and engaging student-created videos across ASEAN member states.
via John Lord Reyes | An Lantawan News
Photos Courtesy of Ed Tiquen, Richie Cabangon, and Jaff Jaro
