Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 35
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack Systems24 Jun 2024 |
Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software Public Sector28 May 2024 | 14
Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users Public Sector03 May 2024 | 2
Imagine if Uber offered car loans, not just rides. Its Indonesian analog will do this soon Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok Software01 May 2024 |
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta Offbeat11 Mar 2024 | 42
India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3
Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why? Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement Software20 Feb 2024 | 14
ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1
ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community Legal12 Dec 2023 |
IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue Software01 Nov 2023 | 2
Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't Off-Prem23 Oct 2023 | 2
US lawmakers want China export bans to include open tech like RISC-V ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave Legal08 Oct 2023 | 13
Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4
Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 2
OpenAI boss Sam Altman receives Indonesia's first golden visa Open AI boss to get 'red carpet' at immigration AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 1
INTERPOL shutters '16shop' phishing-as-a-service outfit Alleged administrator cuffed in Indonesia, associate arrested in Japan, accused of selling fake Amazons for $60 Security09 Aug 2023 |
China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record Offbeat05 Jun 2023 | 8
Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3
India seeks verified IDs to register email accounts Asia In Brief PLUS: Warnings on Chinese payment schemes; AWS brushes up its Cantonese; Hong Kong ponders digital dollar; and more! Security26 Sep 2022 | 3
Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more CSO19 Sep 2022 | 4
Huawei dangles developer incentives to sell Harmony OS around the world Asia In Brief Plus: Indonesia's four-hour takedown demand; Peak Facebook in Korea?; Alibaba frees font; and more. Software22 Aug 2022 | 7
Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18
Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales Asia In Brief PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more Security01 Aug 2022 | 2
Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa' Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home Offbeat27 Jun 2022 | 29
'All digital token transactions carry higher inherent risks': Singapore government Increases regulation on operators to stop money laundering and terror funding Software06 Apr 2022 | 3
Xiaomi adds earthquake alert system to some smartphones Customers in Indonesia promised warning of wobbles sooner than is otherwise possible Personal Tech05 Apr 2022 | 3
Indonesia's new mega-telco to build 18,000km submarine cable to the US Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Networks11 Feb 2022 | 6
Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes' Security27 Jan 2022 | 17
AWS flicks the switch on an Indonesian region Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out Off-Prem14 Dec 2021 | 1
Indonesian President's COVID jab cert leaks – authorities argue that's perfectly reasonable It's not as if politicians' birthdays aren't well known, and they get jabbed on live TV Security06 Sep 2021 | 2
Indonesian authorities probe million-record leak from national COVID app Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege Security01 Sep 2021 | 2
'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses Personal Tech10 Jun 2021 | 17
US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion Legal03 Jun 2021 | 42
Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens' records Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart Security24 May 2021 | 12
Indonesian web giants Gojek and Tokopedia merge to create Asian super-app Combine as ‘GoTo Group’, will represent two percent of GDP and say scale will help them grow Personal Tech17 May 2021 | 1
Tencent Cloud opens first Indonesian data center Jakarta bit barn offers subset of services - CLI, GPU, some storage services, advanced security services and serverless aren't on offer Off-Prem13 Apr 2021 |
Please stop leaking your own personal data online, Indonesia's COVID-19 taskforce tells citizens Posting pics of 'I got the jab' certs, complete with their QR codes, has authorities worried Security25 Mar 2021 | 14
Imagine Amazon, Uber and PayPal merging. Indonesia's rough equivalents are probably doing it Tokopedia and Gojek deal reportedly close, as Indonesia courts Tesla and wrestles SpaceX Off-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 5
Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait PaaS + IaaS02 Mar 2021 |
When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way With Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time SaaS02 Dec 2020 | 65
Microsoft flips big Indonesian e-tailer Bukalapak into Azure from Google cloud Taking a strategic stake in the biz probably helped and shows how big tech is buying into Asia SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 1
Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity Personal Tech13 Oct 2020 | 32
Indonesia starts taxing Minecraft, Skype, Zoom and Twitter Regional video streaming companies added to list of entities required to pay Digital Services Tax Legal10 Sep 2020 | 7
Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come Personal Tech11 Aug 2020 | 5
Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts Legal09 Jul 2020 | 5
Indonesia’s capital city is literally sinking. Google just opened a new cloud region there anyway Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry SaaS24 Jun 2020 | 6
Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election Security17 May 2019 | 157
Vocus to build Singapore-Australia submarine cable 40Tbps link should see first light in late 2018 Networks06 Dec 2016 | 1
Chap cuffed after treating commuters to giant-screen smut Traffic-stopping hack could mean six years inside under Indonesian 'Immoral act' law Security06 Oct 2016 | 9
Jakarta be kidding me! Google gets $400m tax bill from Indonesia Java no friend of the Chocolate Factory On-Prem20 Sep 2016 | 12
Indonesian comms ministry orders 'gay emoji' block First they came for the local IM services, then they came for the world's Legal12 Feb 2016 | 44
Indonesian government cracking the whip on lazy telcos Build networks or I'll cancel your license, says minister Networks21 Jan 2016 | 5
Alphabet spells 'Loon' for Indonesia Broadband balloons secure local operators for 2016 test Networks29 Oct 2015 | 3
Bongfire of Inanity: Jakarta rozzers enforce mass chill-out Pizza consumption and short-term friendships rise Science27 Mar 2015 | 14
The electronics island where COPS shoot ARMY and workers are rioting Where your kit gets made Reg man stumbles into eye of the storm in Indonesia On-Prem21 Dec 2014 | 14
Apple's DIRTY SECRET isn't that secret, or that dirty Comment Indonesia’s tin mining issues aren't the fruity firm’s fault, guys. Move on Personal Tech20 Dec 2014 | 58
Boffins unearth the ultimate antique art - 500,000 years old Early Homo was about more than being erect Science05 Dec 2014 | 41
Apple goes after BlackBerry's last stronghold Cupertinian outpost established in Indonesia On-Prem26 May 2014 | 10
'Anons' cuffed by Australian Federal Police Two arrested for attacks on Indonesian and Australian websites Security22 May 2014 | 7