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Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered on Friday an audit of government data centers after officials said the bulk of data affected by a recent ransomware cyberattack was not backed up, Reuters reported. Last week’s cyberattack, media described as the worst in Indonesia in recent years, has disrupted multiple government services including immigration and operations at major airports, according to the report. The government has said more than 230 public agencies, including ministries, had been affected, but has refused to pay an $8 million ransom demanded to retrieve the encrypted data. In response to the cyberattack, Indonesia’s state auditor said the…
n an increasingly online world, information has become the currency of the digital era, with information security and data privacy becoming top priorities for both organizations and consumers alike.Even so, as our transactions move online, so do the threats. Protecting personal and sensitive data is now more important than ever because of the constantly changing cyber threat landscape along with the expansion of rules and regulations such as the personal data protection law (UU PDP). The dynamic nature of technology has driven companies to be on their toes when it comes to safeguarding their customers’ information and data. Perhaps we…
n an increasingly online world, information has become the currency of the digital era, with information security and data privacy becoming top priorities for both organizations and consumers alike.Even so, as our transactions move online, so do the threats. Protecting personal and sensitive data is now more important than ever because of the constantly changing cyber threat landscape along with the expansion of rules and regulations such as the personal data protection law (UU PDP). The dynamic nature of technology has driven companies to be on their toes when it comes to safeguarding their customers’ information and data. Perhaps we…
July 4, 2024Information hallArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has temporarily banned Meta processing of personal data of users to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. ANPD said it found “evidence of personal data processing on the basis of an inadequate legal hypothesis, lack of transparency, limitation of the rights of data subjects and risks for children and adolescents”. The decision was made by the social media giant update its terms which allow the use of publicly available content from Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for AI training purposes. A recent report published This was…
Indonesia should seize a chance of improving its defence-industry capability by stepping up cooperation with South Korea. With four defence companies among the world’s top 100, South Korea shows that Indonesia can achieve its objective of lifting the scale and skills of its state-owned defence companies, which as a group are known as Defence Industry Indonesia (Defend ID). After unwisely scaling down its participation in South Korea’s KF-21 fighter program, Indonesia should look at other opportunities for join development and production efforts. These should focus on equipment categories that both countries need. In 2022 the Indonesian government set an ambitious…
JAKARTA – Grab Indonesia held a Indonesia Privacy and Security Summit 2023, to prepare for the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Law (UU PDP) which will take full effect in October 2024.The event, which was held on October 24-25 in Yogyakarta, aims to prepare the technical implementation of the PDP Law and its implementation challenges to ensure more optimal governance of personal data.”As a digital-based company that processes large amounts of data every day, the security of user data is certainly our top priority,” said Neneng Goenadi, Country Managing Director, Grab Indonesia in a statement received, quoted Wednesday, November…
LockBit and its affiliates have targeted governments, major companies, schools and hospitals, causing billions of dollars of damage and extracting tens of millions in ransoms from victims. Typically, their programmes – once inserted by the ransomware operator into a target’s IT systems – are manipulated to freeze, via encryption, the target’s files and data. The United States, Britain and Australia last month unveiled sanctions against the leader of LockBit, which they accuse of extorting billions of dollars from thousands of victims. The group was responsible for a quarter of all ransomware attacks worldwide last year and has extorted “over US$1…
he recent ransomware attack on Indonesia’s national data center has exposed critical vulnerabilities in our digital infrastructure, raising alarming questions about the security of our government’s most sensitive information systems.As we grapple with the aftermath of this breach, it is crucial to delve deeper into the potential root causes that may have allowed such a devastating attack to occur. At the heart of this incident lies a complex interplay of technical vulnerabilities and human factors. The attackers likely exploited a technique known as “privilege escalation”, a method whereby they gain initial access to a system, often through seemingly innocuous means,…
July 4, 2024Information hallVulnerability / Critical Infrastructure Microsoft has identified two security flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that could arm remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. “The (remote code execution) vulnerability in PanelView Plus includes two custom classes that can be exploited to download and install a malicious DLL on a device,” security researcher Yuval Gordon said. “The DoS vulnerability exploits the same custom class to send a crafted buffer that the device cannot process properly, resulting in a DoS.” The list of disadvantages is as follows – CVE-2023-2071 (CVSS…
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 unauthorized 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…