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21:51 (IST), May 17Last rites of former army officer Kale killed in Gaza conducted in PuneThe last rites of Colonel (retd) Waibhav Anil Kale, a former Indian army officer who was killed in Rafah region of Gaza earlier this week while working with the United Nations (UN), were performed here on Friday with full state honours. The mortal remains of the 46-year-old former infantry officer were flown here earlier in the day, and kept at his residence in Kalyaninagar for some time before they were taken to the crematorium in Pune Cantonment. Besides family members, his colleagues in the army,…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is improving maritime cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific by partnering with the Government of Indonesia under initiatives supported by the U.S. Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement and U.S. Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency programs. The agreement enhances the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership designed to fortify cybersecurity measures and safeguard maritime critical infrastructure against cyber intrusions and attacks. Additionally, it seeks to boost the security and resilience of the international maritime transportation system. The collaboration built upon Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas’ priority is to enhance close cooperation with partners…
JAKARTA: Indonesia President Joko Widodo announced a minor cabinet reshuffle of six positions on Monday, including a new communications minister whose predecessor is on trial accused of accepting $1.14 million in illegal kickbacks. Budi Arie Setiadi, a deputy minister for villages, replaces Johnny G. Plate, who was arrested in May of taking payments from companies linked to a programme to build telecommunications towers and bring internet to thousands of villages. Johnny, who denies wrongdoing, faces life imprisonment if found guilty of corruption in a project that saw an estimated 8 trillion rupiah ($534.94 million) of state losses. He was the…
orporate consulting company PT Integrity Indonesia is dedicated to ensuring security for its clients by preventing, detecting and mitigating fraud. Integrity Indonesia recently received the ISO 27001:2013 from certification company Intertek Indonesia, an achievement that stands as a testament to its commitment in maintaining and protecting client data.The company succeeded in its accreditation bid after two years of enhancing its operations, from preparing its policy documents, boosting its technical competence and improving upkeep of its administrative records. But its efforts will not stop here: Integrity Indonesia is committed to updating its information security management system (ISMS) for its clients, as…
A malicious peer-to-peer network known as P2PInfect it was found to target misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the transition of the threat from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation. “The latest updates to the cryptominer, ransomware, and rootkit elements demonstrate the malware author’s continued efforts to profit from their illegal access and further spread the network as it continues to spread across the Internet,” Cado Security. said in a report released this week. P2PInfect appeared almost a year ago and has since received updates for…
A domestically produced KF-21 fighter jet is displayed at the Seoul ADEX 2023 event held at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. With Indonesia proposing to pay only one-third of its share for developing the Korean KF-21 fighter jet while requesting a corresponding amount of technology transfer, all eyes are on whether the South Korean government will accept this proposal. Concerns are rising that about 1 trillion won of the government budget might be needed depending on the situation, or that technology may have already been leaked. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) plans…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia pushed for the granting of special privileges to Palestine during an Emergency Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States, on Friday, May 10, 2024.Indonesia was among 77 co-sponsoring countries of a resolution titled “Admission of New Members in the United Nations,” which was also supported by 143 UN member states.”This marks the first time an observer state has been given special rights and privileges approaching those of other UN members,” the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday, May 11, 2024.Palestine has been a UN observer state…
Jakarta: A cyberattack on Indonesia’s national data centre compromised hundreds of government offices and caused long delays at the capital’s main airport, with the hacker demanding an $8 million ransom, officials said Monday.Long queues formed at immigration gates at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport last week after systems went down in the attack, carried out using software developed by Russian ransomware outfit LockBit, an official from the communications ministry said.The attack “affected 210 institutions at the national and local levels,” senior official Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan told reporters on Monday, adding a dark web hacker had demanded a $8 million ransom.He added…
Researchers with vpnMentor have uncovered a data breach involving the COVID-19 test and trace app created by the Indonesian government for those traveling into the country. The ‘test and trace app’ — named electronic Health Alert Card or eHAC — was created in 2021 by the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The vpnMentor team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said it did not have the proper data privacy protocols and exposed the sensitive data of more than one million people through an open server. The app was built to hold the test results of those traveling into the country to make…
On Thursday, TeamViewer announced that on June 26, 2024, it discovered an “irregularity” in its internal corporate IT environment. “We immediately activated our response team and procedures, began an investigation with a team of world-renowned cybersecurity experts, and implemented the necessary remedial measures,” the company said in a statement. said in the statement. It also noted that its corporate IT environment is completely cut off from the product environment and that there is no evidence that any customer data was affected by the incident. He did not reveal any details about who may have been behind the intrusion or how…