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Today’s kill chain escapes enterprises because they don’t protect the infrastructure of today’s business: SaaS. SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the largest share of government cloud spending. But both enterprises and SMBs haven’t overhauled their security programs and adopted security tools built for SaaS. Security teams continue to jam on-premise patches to SaaS security holes The mature security controls that CISOs and their teams depended on during the era of premier dominance are gone. Firewalls now protect a small perimeter, visibility is limited, and even when SaaS vendors offer logs, security teams need homegrown middleware…
lon Musk’s Starlink satellite company has been granted business licences to operate in Indonesia, a senior communication and information ministry official said Thursday.Starlink’s network of low Earth orbit satellites can provide internet to remote locations or areas that have had normal communications infrastructure disabled. Indonesia is a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and Jakarta is seeking to connect millions more of its population who are not hooked up to reliable internet services. Usman Kansong, a senior official at the communication and information ministry, told AFP Starlink had been given approval to operate in Indonesia. “PT Starlink Service Indonesia…
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly discussed bolstering bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and Australia during a meeting with Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil.At the meeting in Jakarta on Tuesday, Laoly said that the working group meeting on immigration needs, which is regularly held with Australia, is running well.”Currently, Indonesia is accelerating the immigration process at airports through automatic checking. Apart from that, the exchange of information on border checking is also important,” he informed in a statement released by his ministry here on Wednesday.The minister also underscored the…
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government won’t pay, authorities said Monday.The cyberattack has disrupted services of more than 200 government agencies at both the national and regional levels since June 20, said Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, the director general of informatics applications with the Communications and Informatics Ministry.Some government services have returned — immigration services at airports and elsewhere are now functional — but efforts continue at restoring other services such as investment licensing, Pangerapan told reporters.The attackers have held data hostage and…
This post was written by Dinita Putri, Project Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta. Indonesia is one of the countries in Asia with an inadequate legal framework on personal data protection despite the fact that nearly 65% of Indonesians are online. Research conducted by the Open Data Lab Jakarta examines the existing personal data protection legal framework in Indonesia, identifies the challenges in providing a comprehensive legal framework, and explores the strategies of government, the business sector, as well as of civil society to comply with the regulations.The research explored the implementation of the existing law and the challenges and opportunities…
Another data theft re-occured in Indonesia lately and it became a hot conversation across social media platforms. One netizen with Twitter username @ridu reported that his credit card application was rejected as his credit rating appeared in the worst category (KOL 5) on SLIK, Indonesian’s centralized Financial Information Service System owned by OJK (Indonesia’s Financial Service Authority). Here’s what @ridu said on his twitter. “Shocked to see my credit score in SLIK from OJK is rated 5, means bad debt and all of the debts are from PT Caturnusa Sejahtera Finance, @traveloka paylater partner, whereas I don’t have any Pay…
June 28, 2024Information hallMalware / cryptocurrency Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation he ran 8220 gang exploiting known security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server. “The threat actor uses fileless execution techniques using DLL mapping and process injection, allowing the malware code to run exclusively in memory and avoid disk-based detection mechanisms,” Trend Micro researchers Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim, Shubham Singh and Sunil Bharti said in a new analysis published today. A cyber security firm is tracking a financially motivated actor known as Water Sigbin use a weapon of vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server, for example CVE-2017-3506,…
The increasing incidence of data breaches across government and private sectors in Indonesia has underscored the need for stringent data protection protocols. In 2022, more than 21,000 companies in Indonesia experienced data breaches. The incidents affected critical sectors, including healthcare, finance, e-commerce and utilities, and highlighted widespread cybersecurity challenges for the country’s business operations. In one notable incident, the healthcare sector encountered significant security breaches due to unauthorised access to the electronic health alert card (e-HAC) system and the Social Health Insurance Administration Body. In addition to data breaches, the government’s potential misuse of data for surveillance and its risks to privacy have…
April 26, 2024 JAKARTA – ASEAN must play a central role and be prepared to mitigate various security threats posed by geopolitical challenges, Indonesia said during talks in Hanoi where hundreds of diplomats and experts convened to discuss the bloc’s future. Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said that traditional security threats aside, the region’s food, energy, economic and cyber security were also under threat. She called for cooperation among ASEAN countries in these sectors. Vietnam hosted the ASEAN Future Forum on Tuesday, discussing ways to address the emerging and existing traditional and nontraditional threats the region is facing. It was…
The President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has ordered an audit of Government data centres after learning the majority of the data affected by a cyberattack was not backed up.Development and Finance Controller (BPKP) of Indonesia, Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, said the audit will cover ‘governance and the financial aspect’. Head of the National Cyber and Crypto Agency known as BSSN, Hinsa Siburian, said 98% of the Government data held in one of the two compromised data centres were not backed up.“Generally we see the main problem is governance and there is no back-up,” said Siburian at a parliamentary hearing.Some lawmakers refused…