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JAKARTA: The recent cyberattack in Indonesia, which massively disrupted its national data system, has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy, reported Xinhua. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Hadi Tjahjanto, said on Friday that the government would carry out digital security improvement and strengthen the system capabilities of its national data centre. “We are designing the data centre with the ability to have multiple back-ups, layered back-ups with strong security measures. We want it to be a system that cannot be hacked. This will continue to be done to…
July 12, 2024Information hallMalware / cyber attacks Cybersecurity researchers shed light on the short-lived DarkGate A malware company that used Samba file shares to initiate the infection. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers running public Samba file shares hosting Visual Basic Script (VBS) and JavaScript files. The targets were North America, Europe and parts of Asia. “This was a relatively short campaign that shows how threat actors can creatively abuse legitimate tools and services to spread their malware,” security researchers Vishwa Totatri, Yidi Sui, Anmol Maura, Uday…
Wagely, a fintech out of Indonesia, made a name for itself with earned wage access: a way for workers in Southeast Asian countries to get advances on their salaries without resorting to higher-interest loans. With half a million people now using the platform, the startup has expanded that business into a wider “financial wellness” platform, and to give that effort an extra push, the company’s now raised $23 million. The news is especially notable given the funding crash that startups in Indonesia have faced in the last couple of years, underscoring how developing countries have been hit even harder than…
JAKARTA, July 12 (Bernama-Xinhua) — The recent cyberattack in Indonesia, which massively disrupted its national data system, has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy, reported Xinhua. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Hadi Tjahjanto, said on Friday that the government would carry out digital security improvement and strengthen the system capabilities of its national data centre. “We are designing the data centre with the ability to have multiple back-ups, layered back-ups with strong security measures. We want it to be a system that cannot be hacked. This will continue to be done…
October 18, 2018Jakarta, IndonesiaOn October 18-19, 2018 the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) convened a workshop in Jakarta, with support from the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region Disaster Risk Management team, the Tokyo Disaster Risk Management Hub, and CBM Australia, inviting National and local government officials and community organizations to share lessons learned from disability-inclusive post-disaster recovery initiatives in Indonesia, Japan, Haiti, and Nepal.“Cities are not always created ‘friendly’ for people of all abilities. Disasters can further exacerbate this challenge, such as through inaccessible evacuation routes or information, poorly designed shelters, loss of assistive aids, and limited…
The recent cyberattack in Indonesia that massively disrupted its national data system has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy. The recent cyberattack in Indonesia that massively disrupted its national data system has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy.Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto said on Friday that the government would carry out digital security improvement and strengthen the system capabilities of its national data centre, reported Xinhua news agency.”We are making the data centre with the ability to have…
Jakarta, July 12 (IANS) The recent cyberattack in Indonesia that massively disrupted its national data system has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto said on Friday that the government would carry out digital security improvement and strengthen the system capabilities of its national data centre, reported Xinhua news agency. “We are making the data centre with the ability to have multiple back-ups, layered back-ups with good security. We want it to be a system that cannot be hacked. This will continue…
US communications service provider AT&T has confirmed that threat actors were able to access data belonging to “almost all” of its wireless customers, as well as mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers that use AT&T’s wireless network. “Threat entities illegally accessed AT&T’s third-party cloud platform workspace and between April 14 and April 25, 2024, stole files containing AT&T records of customer call and text interactions that occurred between approximately May 1 and April 31 October 2022, as well as January 2, 2023,” the message reads said. This includes the phone numbers with which AT&T wireless or MVNO numbers interacted, including…
Jakarta: The recent cyberattack in Indonesia that massively disrupted its national data system has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy.Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto said on Friday that the government would carry out digital security improvement and strengthen the system capabilities of its national data centre, reported Xinhua news agency. “We are making the data centre with the ability to have multiple back-ups, layered back-ups with good security. We want it to be a system that cannot be hacked. This will continue to be done to support…
ndonesian agriculture development has lagged for years as the country struggles to improve technology and human resources in the sector, with experts and farmers believing the condition will make it difficult to effectively safeguard the nation’s food security.AA Gede Agung Wedhatama, founder of the Bali-based Cool Young Farmers (PMK) community said that the widely adopted conventional agricultural system in Indonesia only enables a hectare of land to produce 5 tonnes of rice, while countries with more advanced technology can produce up to 15 tonnes with the same amount of land. PMK began in 2019 in hopes of encouraging young people to…