Chinese Hackers Conduct Most Attacks on Indonesian Cyber: Minister

Surabaya (Antara Jatim) - Information and Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring said that the Chinese hackers have conducted the most attacks on Indonesia's cyber world. "The most attacks come from Chinese hackers, followed by European, US, Singaporean, Malaysian and others," he said in his speech at the "Indonesia Security Conference (IdSecCons) 2013" at state Airlangga University here on Saturday. Flanked by the rector of the university, Prof H Fasich Apt., the minister meanwhile said that his office's website had been attacked by hackers up to 39.9 million times in 2012 while a hacker from Jember, East Java, Wildan, who had hacked President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's website, hacked 5,320 times a year. "These hackers however are useful because they have also shown weakness in our system while they have also never stolen any data. They are different from crackers who hacked to steal data and sell them," he said. On the occasion the minister called on the 6th IdSecCons participants to demonstrate their capabilities in the cyber world positively and selectively because the cyber world also has the potential to create disintegration if its contents sharpen differences and information it spread is negative. "Nearly 64 percent of cyber players are members of the younger generation and therefore you must be selective because if you wish to read the whole contents in the cyber world such as facebook, twitter, emails, youtube, blogs, websites and others it would take 24 years," he said. The director of the university's directorate of information system, Dr Ir Soegianto S Msi meanwhile said the Airlangga University has considered data security very important and therefore the university has become one of the universities that has received ISO 27991:2005 for datasecurity. "In the future data security is very important because the war in the future will not use arms but it will be a cyber war and therefore IdSecCons has for the sixth time held the event to share current information about security and for cooperation among academics, practitioners and law enforcers," he said. He said the event on June 15-16 was attended by 500 participants consisting of academics, practitioners, law enforcers and hackers community members from Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Bandung and Jakarta, presenting nine out of 35 best papers in the field of digital forensic, IT Crime Detection and digital signature. "It also presents a hacking game which is a hacking competition offering million rupiahs worth of prizes," he said at the opening of the event. (*)