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Hundreds of Government agencies in Indonesia have been disrupted after hacking group, Lockbit, used an advanced piece of malicious software called Lockbit 3.0 to breach cyber defences.Immigration checkpoints stopped working and manual checks had to be undertaken, leading to long queues at airports across the nation. The head of the Immigration service moved its data centre other than a private cloud server after the system went down.“Generally, technical problems can be resolved in a matter of one to three hours. When it exceeded six hours, we concluded that there must be something bigger than just technical problems, maybe caused by…
JAKARTA – Health experts and rights groups have criticised a new draft law in Indonesia, saying it puts citizens’ health data at risk. The Health Bill, when passed into law, will allow the authorities to collect and use a wide range of Indonesians’ health data, including their genomic data, and process it outside the country. But this means the trove of data will be rendered more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by malicious parties, the experts say. The collection of genomic data may enable researchers to analyse types of diseases in a population and find ways to cure them, but…
ABC International Development (ABCID) has launched a new media development initiative in Indonesia, the third largest democracy and fourth most populated country in the world.Disinformation and misinformation have become some of the biggest threats to trust on the Internet globally, and particularly in Asia. With Indonesia accounting for over half of Southeast Asia’s 400 million internet users, this project aims to strengthen digital literacy of Indonesian independent media and their audiences tackling personal data protection and online violence as one of the most pressing issues.Indonesia’s digital literacy index increased from 3.46 in 2020 to 3.54 in 2022, with digital safety…
July 3, 2024Information hallMalware poisoning / SEO Bootloader as a Service (LaaS), known as FakeBat, has become one of the most common bootloader malware families distributed using the autobot download method this year, Sekoia findings show. “FakeBat is primarily aimed at loading and executing a next-stage payload, e.g IcedID, Lamma, Red line, SmokeLoader, Sectopratand Ursnif,” company said in Tuesday’s analysis. Drive-by attacks involve the use of techniques such as search engine optimization (SEO), malicious advertising, and injecting malicious code into compromised sites to trick users into downloading fake software installers or browser updates. The use of malware downloaders over the…
Two US technology tycoons and one British political luminary made separate visits to Jakarta in April, met Joko “Jokowi” Widodo at the presidential palace, and pitched projects that fall in line with Jokowi’s digital transformation agenda.Indonesia’s digital economy is expected to be valued at US$125 billion by 2025, the largest share in ASEAN. First, Apple CEO Tim Cook met Jokowi 17 April, announcing a US$74 million investment to build an Apple Developer Academy for digital talent. Apple already has three such academies in Indonesia, in Batam island, an hour’s ferry trip south of Singapore; South Tangerang, a city to the west of Jakarta;…
Report Ocean published the latest research report on the Indonesia Cyber Security Market. In order to comprehend a market holistically, a variety of factors must be evaluated, including demographics, business cycles, and microeconomic requirements that pertain precisely to the market under study. In addition, the Indonesia Cyber Security Market study demonstrates a detailed examination of the business state, which represents creative ways for company growth, financial factors such as production value, and growth rate. [Download Free Sample]The Indonesia Cyber Security market value was US$ $$ billion in 2022. The Indonesia Cyber Security market value is forecast to reach US$ $$ billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual…
Responding to the cyberattack, Indonesia’s state auditor said the president instructed it to examine the country’s data centres. The audit would cover “governance and the financial aspect”, said Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, who heads Indonesia’s Development and Finance Controller (BPKP), after attending a cabinet meeting led by Widodo on Friday. Hinsa Siburian, an official who chairs Indonesia’s cyber security agency known by its acronym BSSN, has said 98 per cent of the government data stored in one of the two compromised data centres had not been backed up. “Generally we see the main problem is governance and there is no back-up,”…
A cyberattack has hit the national data center of Indonesia. Hackers demanded a ransom of $8 million, which the government refused to pay. Over 200 government agencies are affected, and some services, like immigration, are slowly resuming. Passengers arrive at Juanda Surabaya international airport in Sidoarjo, East Java on April 6, 2024, as people go to their hometowns ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Photo : JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP PHOTO/AFP via Getty Images) Response of Indonesia to the Cyberattack Indonesia’s national data center fell victim to a cyberattack last Thursday, with…
Calls have intensified in the last couple of days on the need to put in place a body that will oversee the proper management of personal data in Indonesia after reports emerged that a notorious hacker stole and put the data of nearly 35 million citizens on sale on the dark web. The calls come as a similar incident happened in Bangladesh where data from a government website is said to have been leaked to the world wide web, sparking huge concerns of identity theft or data manipulation. Indonesia data oversight body needed The recent data leak incident is reported…
Speakers at the opening of the Workshop on Digital Ethics and Standards Ainagul Abdrakhmanova/ UNDP Jakarta, 10 August 2023 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hosted a pivotal seminar in Indonesia today, delving into the critical domains of digital rights and ethics. The event, under the theme “Navigating Digital Rights and Ethics: Trends, Principles, and Practices,” brought together distinguished speakers from civil society organizations and the private sector. Their discussions centered around the intricate challenges surrounding the safeguarding of digital rights and data protection in Indonesia, as well as the ethical dimensions inherent in digitalization and user conduct. This…