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Singapore vows to hunt down Anonymous hackers

07.35 |

Singapore will "spare no effort" to hunt down hackers from activist group Anonymous who last week threatened to wage a cyber war against the government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday.
Lee told reporters the city-state had also strengthened its defences against such attacks.
"Our IT (information technology) network, the Internet, our communications have become an essential part of our business and our lives now," the Today newspaper quoted him as saying in its online edition.
"And, therefore, when somebody threatens to do harm to it... we take that very seriously and we will spare no effort to try and track down the culprits and if we can find him, we will bring him to justice and he will be dealt with severely."
It was Lee's first comment since a person claiming to be from the international hackers' group Anonymous threatened to mount cyber attacks against the government in protest at new licensing rules for news websites.
In the video posted last Thursday on YouTube, a person speaking with a computer digitised voice and wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, the global symbol of Anonymous, said the group would "go to war" with the Singapore government.
A day later a person claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous hacked a reporter's blog on the website of the pro-government Straits Times newspaper.
The hacker also warned of further attacks on the tightly governed city-state if demands for greater Internet freedom were not met.
Lee said authorities had worked to make cyber infrastructure less vulnerable but IT systems were complicated and not entirely impenetrable.
Singapore strictly regulates the traditional media. Its new Internet rules have sparked anger in the blogging and social media community, which has raised fears they aim to muzzle free expression.
Authorities have said the new licensing rules do not impinge on Internet freedom.

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Singapore PM meets Muslim MPs over headscarf debate

07.33 |

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (pic) yesterday met Malay-Muslim Members of Parliament from the ruling People's Action Party over the issue of allowing the wearing of the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, among Muslim women in the public sector.
The Straits Times reported that several groups in the city-state have recently called for Muslim women in public sector professions that require a uniform, to be allowed to wear the hijab.
The republic's Minister for Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim said Lee wanted to create a conducive environment for people of all faiths to practise their religions freely.
"But he also explained why we must manage and balance the diverse needs of our multi-racial and multi-religious society. Hence the need for accommodation and compromise by all parties," Yaacob was quoted as saying in a Facebook posting, as reported by The Straits Times.
"This is the Singapore way, and has served everyone well over the years. As I mentioned before, it will take time, but we will find practical solutions if we continue to engage with goodwill," he added.
In September, a lecturer asked a forum why nurses in Singapore were barred from wearing the hijab. Yaacob had said that wearing a Muslim headscarf at the workplace would be “very problematic” for some professions, while urging the Malay-Muslim community to remain patient. Prior to that, the hijab issue was raised by a committee tasked to get feedback on Muslim concerns, Suara Musyawarah.
The issue also led to the launching this week of the Singapore Hijab Movement, whose Facebook page attracted some 20,000 likes.
"Hijab represents modesty and dignity. Let's champion this cause with similar modesty and dignity that the hijab represents," said a posting on the Facebook.
Muslim women working in such professions as nursing, police force and military service are currently not allowed to wear hijab or other religious symbols.
Muslims, mostly Malays, account for some 15% of Singapore's population. - November 6, 2013.

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4 reasons BlackBerry phones will die in Indonesia (but BBM will still reign supreme)

07.31 |

Today BlackBerry resumes the launch of its highly anticipated BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android and iOS. While that’s great news for a lot of Indonesians who can now communicate with their BBM-using friends on Android and iOS, the same cannot be said for the fate of BlackBerry’s hardware.

BBM can retain crown

Despite its late arrival cross-platform and many other setbacks, I still believe BBM can retain its title of Indonesia’s king of messaging apps. The three reasons are simple:
cyrus chat 2
  • First, BBM is still the number one messaging app in the country, and that can still draw in new users from the ‘network effect’ 1.
  • Second, BBM is used by many merchants in Indonesia to conduct transactions with thousands of their BBM contacts, so moving away from BBM would be very difficult for them.
  • And third, local handset manufacturers will start pre-installing the new BBM app onto their Android phones, which indirectly promotes the usage of BBM as well. The newest handset from Indonesia’s Cyrus is a good example. Called Cyrus Chat (pictured right), the Android phone has a physical QWERTY keyboard and comes, as it advertising blares, with BBM pre-installed.
All of the above reasons point toward a positive trend of more BBM usage in Indonesia in the near future.

Even without key features, BBM will still be used

Of course, BBM for Android and iOS doesn’t offer some fun features like stickers, social games, free calls, and video calls – unlike WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, and many other fast-growing messaging apps. But it’s very typical for Indonesians to use multiple chat apps at the same time. If it’s not number one, BBM can still be one of the main chat apps in Indonesia.
The main issue for BBM is its consistency. Up until the time of writing, there are a lot of BBM errors and outages happening because the servers cannot withstand the surge of today’s new users.

Gloomy future for BlackBerry handsets

Whatever happens in the long term to BBM depends on BlackBerry and its uncertain fate. So while the BBM app/service is on the verge of revival in Indonesia, its handsets are still on course for some gloomy days. Here are four reasons for that:

1. No more exclusive features on BlackBerry handsets

The three things that made BlackBerry hugely popular a few years back were the handsets’ push-email feature, physical QWERTY models, and BBM. These three features are no longer exclusive to BlackBerry.
More and more handset manufacturers will emulate Cyrus – pre-installing the BBM app onto Android phones and marketing them as BlackBerry replacements. This encourages users to move on from their BlackBerry phones.

2. Bad handset experience

bbm down again
BlackBerry doesn’t have the same luxury appeal it had a couple years ago in Indonesia. Many people can buy a BlackBerry now for as little as IDR 2 million ($184). Even the newest BlackBerry legacy handset, the BlackBerry 9720, is just IDR 2.8 million ($257).
Without the luxury cachet, BlackBerry is left quite naked.
Plus, BlackBerrys lag a lot, frustrating many users. That has forced a lot of people in Indonesia to carry two phones with them: an old BlackBerry handset and a second phone, usually an Android. With BBM no longer exclusive, there’s less reason to cling on to old BlackBerry phones.

3. Bad resale value

BlackBerry handsets face a new danger as their price keeps dropping worldwide. The firm’s flagship handset, the BlackBerry Z10, saw a huge price drop from IDR 6.9 million ($609) to IDR 4.7 million ($415) in just half a year in Indonesia.
That is a huge blow for existing Z10 users. There’s no way that they can resell a Z10 at a reasonable price without losing a lot of money. The ones buying Z10s are the early adopters of BlackBerry’s newest OS, and they will not take this huge drop in resale price lightly.
The Q10 and Q5 models have retained stable prices so far.

4. Low confidence in BlackBerry OS

It’s looking gloomy for BlackBerry right now. The company recorded a $1 billion loss last quarter andfired 4,500 workers just days after the Z30 launch. And don’t forget that BlackBerry also recently reached a preliminary agreement recently to be acquired for $4.7 billion.
BlackBerry says it will retain all of its employees in Indonesia, but one can’t help but wonder if there’s really a future in developing apps for BlackBerry or any point in buying its phones.
While BBM can still live on, its BlackBerry OS might not have much life left. The safest bet for developers – both in Indonesia and worldwide – is to migrate to either Android or iOS.
So that’s it. If BlackBerry doesn’t have an ace up its sleeve for BlackBerry OS, then the Canadian company might be better off focusing on BBM and other web services. Will there even be BlackBerry phones for sale next year? Maybe Lenovo has something to say about that.
(Editing by Paul Bischoff and Steven Millward)
  1. Based on our online poll on Games in Asia Indonesia, 86.6 percent respondents (out of 4,718 people) say that they will download BBM.

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‘Anonymous Indonesia’ Hacks 170 Australian Websites Under #OpAustralia, Protests NSA Spying Report

07.27 |

A group of hackers identifying themselves as “Anonymous Indonesia” and claiming to be an offshoot of the larger hacktivist collective, said that they hacked more than 170 Australian websites in response to a report that Australia used its embassy in Jakarta to conduct spying efforts spearheaded by the United States.
According to the Indonesian website Tempo.co, the group claimed responsibility for synchronized cyberattacks on more than 100 Australian websites. Links to those websites were posted on the group’s Twitter account.
Tempo reported that the majority of those websites belonged to small businesses, and that many of the pages were defaced with the message “Stop Spying on Indonesia.” One hacked website stated: "Tell on your government stop all forms of tapping into Indonesia. Or we will make your internet network destroyed,” Fairfax Media reported.

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Indonesia steps up attack over spying

07.20 |

Indonesia has intensified its reaction to revelations that Australia was systematically spying from its embassy in Jakarta, apparently threatening in response to stem intelligence about people smuggling.
Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, stung by the revelations in Fairfax Media last week, has also vowed to co-sponsor an anti-spying resolution at the United Nations.
Julie Bishop: Her explanations have not pleased the Inodnesians.
Julie Bishop: Her explanations have not pleased the Indonesians. Photo: Reuters
Asked what action Dr Natalegawa would take against Australia, he said that if there were no ''explicit assurances'' that spying would stop, it would threaten Indonesia's role as a partner in other areas.
''I was looking at the Indonesia-Australia [partnership], the various agreements the two countries have committed themselves,'' Dr Natalegawa said.
''One of them obviously is the agreement to exchange information, exchange even intelligence information, in fact, to address the issue of people smuggling … to disrupt terrorism, etc. Now these information flows have been rather effective, have been rather important. We need to look at that. If Australia feels that there are ways of obtaining information other than the official ones, then one wonders where we are in terms of co-operation.''
He was speaking in the context of his dissatisfaction with explanations to him personally by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and to his department by Australian ambassador Greg Moriarty, in meetings last Friday, and from the US earlier in the week.
''The kind of response that we've been obtaining or receiving is the more generic response that neither the government of Australia nor the United States is able to confirm or deny the practices reported in the various media,'' Dr Natalegawa said. ''In the absence of such assurances to the contrary, of course we must assume that such activities are taking place.''
It's a significant step-up in response from Dr Natalegawa, who, sharing a conference podium with Ms Bishop in Perth last week, said the spying was ''not cricket''.
Back in Jakarta on Monday, he has called for a ''strong commitment'' by Australia and the US that ''they would not engage in any activity inconsistent with the friendly relations between our two countries''.
Dr Natalegawa said Indonesia was ''joining Germany and Brazil in co-sponsoring in the UN General Assembly [a discussion] to address precisely this kind of issue''.
A leading security academic has responded to Dr Natalegawa's comments on the spying allegations by saying Indonesia is playing politics. 
Australian National University Professor Michael Wesley says Indonesia has plenty to lose from a breakdown in diplomatic relations with its southern neighbour and news of an intelligence-gathering operation being run out of Australia’s embassy in Jakarta is unlikely to impact ties.
‘‘When they say they’ll review collaboration with both Australia and the United States, there’s not a lot the Indonesians can do,’’ Prof Wesley told Sky News on Tuesday.
‘‘Marty Natalegawa is a very experienced, seasoned diplomat, he knows there’s a new government in Canberra, there’s an inexperienced prime minister and an inexperienced foreign minister and they’re just softening us up,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, innocent victims of the spat between Indonesia and Australia include a Queensland hospital, a children's cancer association and an anti-slavery charity, whose websites have been attacked by Indonesian hackers.
Schools and community groups were also among at least 100 Australian websites hit by cyber-attacks launched in retaliation to revelations by Fairfax Media that Australia used its embassies to spy on neighbours.
One of the hacker groups has vowed to continue unless Australia comes clean about its use of surveillance equipment in its Jakarta embassy. ''Tell your government we will stop [hacking] if there is clear recognition [of] spying on Indonesia,'' a spokesman for the Java Cyber Army said when contacted through Facebook.
With AAP

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