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RI biggest source of virus, malware attacks
Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) security expert Budi Rahardjo says Indonesian human resources needed to be empowered to be able to ward off cybercrime, which had the potential to threaten national security
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andungInstitute of Technology (ITB) security expert Budi Rahardjo says Indonesianhuman resources needed to be empowered to be able to ward off cybercrime, whichhad the potential to threaten national security.
'Indonesia needs at least 7,000 information and technology security experts. We lack such experts now,' he said at the Indonesia Cyber Crime Summit 2014 in Bandung, West Java, on Thursday.
Communications and Information Ministry data show that Indonesians commit the most cybercrime worldwide. In the second quarter of 2013, 42,000 cyber attacks occurred per day in Indonesia. The data also reveals that during the past three years, 36.6 million cyber attacks were recorded in the country.
Budi further explained that cyber attacks occurred via virus and malware that were difficult to detect using existing network facilities. He said there was an urgent need to strengthen security in cyber networks in Indonesia due to a significant increase in computer and smartphone users.
'The number of Internet users in Indonesia has reached 70 million,' said Budi.
The ministry's director for informatics and application, Bambang Heru, said that based on investigation, most viruses and malware were spread through pornographic sites.
'Viruses and malware can attack and steal strategic data, starting from private data to banking data,' he said.
The Indonesia Computer Emergency Response Team reported finding three types of malware imbedded in Internet protocol networks that had attacked at least 70,000 computers in Indonesia. The malware ' Drone, sality2 and conficker.c ' has the potential to attack distributed denial of service (DDoS) among other things, including committing cybercrime.
As of June 2013, malware has attacked 196 Internet service providers and non-Internet service provider companies, 27 academic institutions, 13 government institutions and three Internet exchange points (two government-owned and one belonging to a community).
The team's manager, Ahmad Alkazimy, said attacks could occur very fast whereby within less than 24 hours, they doubled from 30,000 cases on June 11, 2013, to 71,000 cases on June 12, 2013.
Bambang said the government was striving to tackle the problem by, among others things, making regulations for Internet service providers. (ebf)
