The Jakarta Post
Technical issues at two major airports in Southeast Asia have shown that ASEAN’s member states are woefully unprepared for cyberattacks, experts have said. Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport experienced last week major disruptions that served as a wake-up call for member countries to have precautionary measures in place to prevent such incidents from occurring again. Last Friday, the check-in system for three international flights at Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta airport experienced technical problems. Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur airport experienced various network failures that affected its flight information display system, check-in counters, baggage handling system, Wi-Fi connection and credit card systems at retail and food and beverage stores, Bernama reported. Preliminary findings by Malaysia A...