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Indonesia is investigating alleged personal data breaches at state-owned telecoms firm PT Telkom Indonesia’s internet service IndiHome and state utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), its communications ministry said on Sunday. Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, a senior communications ministry official, said in a statement the ministry had summoned representatives from Telkom and PLN and had sent recommendations on data protection to both firms. A Telkom spokesperson told Reuters on Monday that there was no breach of IndiHome customers’ data. PLN’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment although it was quoted by local media as saying on Saturday…
July 12, 2024Information hallSoftware Vulnerability / Security A critical security issue has been discovered in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent that could allow threat actors to deliver malicious attachments to targeted users’ mailboxes. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39929, has a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. This was resolved in version 4.98. “Exim through 4.97.1 incorrectly parses the RFC 2231 multiline header file name, allowing remote attackers to bypass the $mime_filename extension blocking protection mechanism and potentially deliver executable attachments to end-user mailboxes,” the description reads general in the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Exim is a free mail…
ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok agreed to invest $1.5 billion in a joint venture with Indonesia’s GoTo Group that it will control, part of a pact that lets the Chinese company restart its shopping app in its biggest online-retail market.The social media giant will combine its Indonesian TikTok Shop business with GoTo’s e-commerce unit Tokopedia, the companies saidBloomberg Terminal Monday. TikTok gets a 75% stake in that combination, which will run the shopping features of TikTok’s social media app in Indonesia. GoTo fell 20% in Jakarta, the most since its listing in 2022, on concerns it’s moving away from a potentially lucrative…
Canberra (ANTARA) – Last November, Indonesia and the United States had agreed to upgrade their relations to the level of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP).This new status enables both countries to access numerous forms of strategic cooperation, including in the security sector. However, the new status did not fully resemble the reality of Indonesia-US strategic ties. Further enhancement is required, especially regarding the disruptive maritime security issue in the Indo-Pacific.Several months before the CSP agreement, both countries arranged several defense agreements. Lockheed Martin —one of the prominent US arms corporations— agreed to sell 24 S-70 Blackhawk helicopters to the Indonesian Army.…
Bloomberg | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz May 06, 2024 01:41 PM IST Mount Ruang, in Indonesia, erupted spectacularly last month and has been spewing ash that forced nearby airports to close and flights to be cancelled. Indonesia will permanently relocate the entire population of an island in North Sulawesi province because a volcano is threatening their safety. Evacuees board an Indonesian naval vessel on Tagulandang Island in Sitaro, North Sulawesi, as Mount Ruang volcano spews smoke in the background. Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far…
A Memorandum of Understanding focused on Disaster Risk Management has been signed between the Fijian and Indonesian government. Minister for National Disaster Management Inia Seruiratu says the agreement will allow the two nations to prepare themselves to be self-sustaining and resilient after a natural disaster. He says it will also lessen the impact of a disaster on our social systems, infrastructure and the economy. Seruiratu has also revealed that they will soon visit the Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority to learn from their operations and processes. He says they will also see the design of their facility and perhaps adapt to…
SINGAPORE / JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 2 November 2023 – Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners today announced that the firm, has entered into strategic partnership with Sinar Primera, a leading Indonesia developer of new economy real estate, for developing a Data Center in Batam, Indonesia. Kenneth Gaw, President and Managing Principal of Gaw Capital Partners (Left); Trisno Kemat, Board Member of Sinar Primera Group (Right) The alliance between Gaw Capital and Sinar Primera underscores a shared vision for capitalizing on emerging opportunities in the digital infrastructure sector. With Gaw Capital as the primary investor, Sinar…
April 3, 2023 JAKARTA – Despite Western countries’ push to restrict the TikTok social media platform over data and national security concerns, cybersecurity analysts suggest that Indonesia should not immediately jump on the bandwagon but instead look to guarantee Indonesia’s data security. Last Thursday, the United States Congress grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over China’s allegedly wide-ranging influence over the platform, during which Chew denied that the app shares data or has connections with the Chinese Communist Party. Some 20 US senators have also backed bipartisan legislation forging a path for US President Joe Biden’s administration to ban TikTok…
July 12, 2024Hacker newsDigital Security / Internet Security In today’s digital age, passwords serve as keys to our most sensitive information, from social media accounts to banking and business systems. With this enormous power comes considerable responsibility and vulnerability. Most people don’t realize their credentials have been compromised until the damage is done. Imagine waking up to drained bank accounts, stolen identities, or a ruined company reputation. This is not just a hypothetical scenario – it is a harsh reality that countless people and organizations face every day. Recent data shows that compromised credentials are the biggest attack vector in…
What’s the context?AI-generated deepfake videos are circulating from India to Indonesia ahead of elections, raising concerns about influencing voters Deepfake videos are circulating in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan before polls AI technology makes it easy to create, spread deepfakes Social media platforms, governments not doing enough to curb them, say experts Meta, Google say they have policies in place to check deepfakes Divyendra Singh Jadoun was busy making artificial intelligence-based visual effects and voice clones for film and television in India, when he began getting calls from politicians: could he create AI videos, or deepfakes, for their election campaign? With…