Abney & Associates News Articles: Indonesia, A New Hub For
Global Cyber Crime
Thehindu.com
Australian customers of some 170 small businesses ranging from dry cleaners, to renters of bouncy
castles, were in for a surprise last week, when they attempted to...
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Abney & Associates News Articles: Indonesia, A New Hub For
Global Cyber Crime
Thehindu.com
Australian customers of some 170 small businesses ranging from dry cleaners, to renters of bouncy
castles, were in for a surprise last week, when they attempted to access the relevant websites and were
confronted with a curt message: “Stop spying on Indonesia.”
As diplomatic tensions between Indonesia and Australia reached a nadir over revelations that Canberra
eavesdropped on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s phone conversations in 2009, Indonesian
hackers have been protesting as vociferously as the more corporeal crowds outside the Australian
diplomatic mission in Jakarta.
Hacking by nationalistically-driven youth is a phenomenon more usually associated with China, but as
demonstrated by the Australia attacks, Indonesia is also emerging as a major source country for
malicious cyber traffic.
In fact, a recent report by cloud computing firm, Akmai, pin points Indonesia, not China, as the count
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