'Anonymous Indonesia' Launches Cyber Attack on Government Sites

JAKARTA — Hackers have defaced more than 12 government websites in Indonesia following the arrest of an alleged hacker in East Java this month. Analysts say weak security and strong solidarity among underground hacker networks is at the heart of the problem.

In one of the world’s most social-media savvy countries, the online group ‘Anonymous Indonesia’ has been drawing attention in recent days.

In a matter of hours, the group brought down the websites of seven government ministries and that of the national police.

Instead of the official pages, web users were greeted by a cloaked figure alongside the catchphrase: ‘No Army Can Stop an Idea.’

The coordinated hack is seen as retaliation for the arrest of 22-year-old Wildan Yani Ashari, who hacked the president’s website earlier in January.

A social media lecturer who focuses on underground online movements, Donny Bu says solidarity among Indonesian hackers is strong.

“Even if you don’t know the other hackers, if one of them is from the underground community, or an underground hacker is arrested and becomes quote unquote ‘famous,’ on the media, then the others, underground community, will use that issue to voice their statement,” he said.

Anonymous Indonesia and its supporters have rallied against his arrest on twitter and other social media networks.

They say it is unfair that Wildan faces up to five years in prison when corrupt officials regularly walk away with much lighter sentences.

An employee of an Internet cafe in East Java, the 22-year-old is being charged under the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law.

Although critics say the penalty for what is essentially a prank is too harsh, Indonesia’s Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wildan must be appropriately punished.

“They [Indonesian online community] try to compare for the punishment for the corrupters and punishment for the hacker… It is a serious problem because, you know, if the policeman or the court not punish this guy maybe other hackers will try to do something that will disturb our Internet network,” he explained.

The minister says there were 36.6 million incidents of hacking against the government in 2012.

But, cyber security analysts say that most of these incidents are cases of ‘online graffiti’, pranks committed by juveniles.

Few are involved in more serious crimes such as e-commerce fraud, says cyber analyst Budi Rahardjo.

“Hacking in Indonesia is common, just like in other places in the world, mostly done by youngsters trying to establish themselves," he added. "Most of them just hack websites just to show themselves but, other than that, they don’t do other harms.”

Rahardjo admits that many government websites are not secure and an easy target for low-skilled hackers.

However, he says,  these days you do not have to be a sophisticated programmer or skillful hacker to paralyze government websites.

Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring says he has a team working 24 hours a day to secure the firewalls of government sites. 

Source : VOA

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How To Recover Your Stolen Apple ID

For those of you who had the unfortunate experience of having your Apple ID stolen – it could be very distressing especially if you could not recover the hundreds or thousands of your favorite apps that you had purchased.

Having your Apple ID stolen could happen to anyone. And it happened to RumpiTekno on 23 December 2012, two days just before Christmas. An email from Apple was received informing that an account change had occurred where RumpiTekno Apple ID was stolen by someone using the email, lupuslupus40@gmail.com. What a low life jerk!

When your Apple ID is stolen, the original Apple ID together will all its apps will become somebody else account (in this case, the thief with the email, lupuslupus40@gmail.com). If you try to access your stolen Apple ID, it will show up as No Apple ID found.

Fortunately, for those of us who owns an Apple product, we have the iTunes Store Customer Support team helping us when we are in need. If you want to recover your stolen Apple ID, here are the steps you need to do.

Step 1. Lodge a Report with iTunes Store Support

Click here: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html and then select Account Security and then provide your Apple ID information and describe your problem as clearly as possible.

When you lodge a report with iTunes Store, you will receive a case number that will be used as a reference when you contact Account Security later(explained subsequently).

Step 2: Wait for a Response

From my experience, you can always depend on iTunes Store Customer Support to reply to you as soon as possible (normally within 24 hours) with helpful instructions and a smile. I lodged my report twice and I got a response for both of them!

Step 3: Speak to an Account Security Advisor

iTunes Store Customer Support will provide you with information on how to contact Account Security. You can speak to an Account Security Advisor by following these steps:

1. Click https://expresslane.apple.com/
 
2. Click on All Products & Services> iTunes> iTunes Store then for Topic choose Account Management > Lost or Forgotten Apple ID password. (Make sure that you choose this option. This is the only option that will not charge you)

3. Choose Continue
 
4. You will be given the options to Talk to Apple Support Now or Call Apple Support Later, please choose the option that works best for you.

If the hold time is long, you might only have the option to talk with them later.

Step 4: Or Call Account Security Directly

You can also call the Account Security team directly and speak to an Account Security Advisor by calling our AppleCare technical support team. Click http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57 to see all worldwide telephone support numbers.

For example, the number to contact AppleCare for Indonesia is 0018 03061 2009 (as shown in the Apple website.) However, you cannot use the toll free number which is only available if you are calling in Singapore as it is the contact number for iTunes Store Singapore (supporting Indonesia and maybe some other regions).

To call iTunes Store Singapore direct from Indonesia, use the number 007-65-6480-8392. You will be received by an automated telephone response and AppleCare will inform you how long you will have to wait before your call will be serviced.

Step 5: What to Prepare when you Speak to an Account Security Officer

When your call is connected, inform the Technical Support (who greets you) that you account had been stolen and that you wish to speak to the Account Security Officer.

Before you speak to the Account Security Officer, make sure you have the following prepared as you will require them. When I first spoke to the Account Security Officer, I was fumbling with all these.

1. Your case number.

2. Serial number of your iPad or any iDevice which you had already registered that you had used to download apps using your stolen Apple ID.

3. Answers to the Security Questions of your account that was stolen.

4. A new email account that has not been associated with any Apple ID before.

5. Your computer or iDevice connected to the internet.

Step 6. Getting your Stolen Account Back

The Account Security Officer will (or may) ask the following questions in the following order:

1. Your case number for the initial reference to your case.

2. The serial number of your iDevice which had being registered that you had used to download apps using your stolen Apple ID

3. The answers to the Security Questions of your account that was stolen.

4. A new email account that has not been associated with any Apple ID before.

The Account Security Officer will then create an Apple ID using your new email account. You will be sent an email to reset the password that you want with that new Apple ID.

Click https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa to login into your new Apple ID again with your password to verify that you can successfully access the new Apple ID.

The Account Security Officer will subsequently restore all your purchased apps into the new Apple ID account. That thief that stole RumpiTekno account tried to hide its path. RumpiTekno Apple ID was recovered from chrisjawaadmalik@gmail.com. You think you can fool RumpiTekno by changing multiple Apple IDs but you can never fool the folks at iTunes Support team.

Step 7: Housekeeping your Recovered Apple ID

Once you had your Apple ID recovered, you should immediately update your information to reflect your account. For example, the low life that had stolen the RumpiTekno account had change the original name from Rumpi Tekno to Rumpi Jawaad Tekno, added an alternate Apple ID (tekim2009@me.com) and make minor changes to the address.

Step 8: Expect Damage Done

When you had recovered your stolen Apple ID, you should expect some damage done. Before RumpiTekno Apple ID was stolen, it has a balance about $70.00 and that idiot who stole the Apple ID had used up all the monies (leaving a balance of $0.10).

 And that idiot used up most of the monies to buy porno stuff (Inked Girls Magazine, Maxim+ Magazine and lots of Karma Sutra stuff!) What a pervert! He is not only a thief but a real pervert!! OMG!!!

Step 9: Thank You

If you had your Apple ID recovered, remember to thank the iTunes Store Customer Support and Account Security Officer. They had helped us to recover our stolen Apple ID (or any other problem we may encounter) and I believe a word of thank you should be in order.

“Thank you to the Magnificent Seven (Beverly, Britney, LaToya, Audrey, and 3 other iTunes Technical Support team that I spoke to via telephone) for recovering back RumpiTekno Apple ID. Awesomely grateful.”

I hope none of us had to go through the ordeal of losing an Apple ID with lots of goodies in it! But if you do lose it, you can recover your stolen Apple ID with these steps.

From : Rumpi Tekno

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Microsoft Surface Hanya Terjual 1 Juta Unit

Surface seharusnya menjadi jawaban Microsoft atas iPad. Tablet berbasis Windows itu diharapkan memuaskan pengguna biasa dan pekerja digital. Namun, harapan itu nampaknya jauh dari kenyataan. Analis UBS Brent Thill memperkirakan Microsoft baru menjual 1 juta tablet Surface RT selama kuartal lalu, sebagaimana dilaporkan Business Insider. Dia sebelumnya memperkirakan angka penjualannya sebesar 2 juta. Sementara Apple diperkirakan telah menjual sekitar 20 juta iPad untuk periode yang sama.

Di sisi lain, pekan lalu Samsung mengatakan pihaknya menarik kembali rencana untuk merilis tablet berbasis Windows RT – sistem operasi yang sama yang berjalan pada Surface. Samsung menyebut alasan penarikan karena ketidaktahuan konsumen tentang versi Windows untuk perangkat berbasis ARM itu. Selain itu juga karena faktor biaya.

“Kami tidak mencapai titik harga yang kami harapkan,” kata wakil presiden senior Samsung Mike Abary pada CNET.

CEO Microsoft Steve Ballmer mengatakan dalam sebuah wawancara November lalu bahwa penjualan Surface “lumayan” (meskipun Microsoft kemudian mengatakan Ballmer berbicara tentang pasokan dan distribusi Surface, bukan penjualan).  Jika penjualan Surface RT buruk, Microsoft akan berharap pada Surface Pro, versi perangkat yang sedikit lebih besar yang menggunakan Windows 8 Pro. Microsoft sebelumnya mengatakan versi Pro akan diluncurkan tiga bulan setelah Surface RT, atau sekitar akhir Januari.

Sumber : Rumpi Tekno

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Tips in Using ClipArt

ClipArt? Yes, this is a term for a collection of stock images provided by a third party. besides
ClipArt also known stock photo contains a collection of photographs, which are distributed either free or paid. The images consist of cartoons, decorative down to illustratively has a lot to offer since the beginning of the 90's (even before that). If the collection is mounted on a slide these days, instead of the classic effect, but rather old-fashioned view that can damage situation.

This is not one of her clipart but a mistake in selecting and his masangnya. Many makers find and install clipart slides at random, so the results are not supporting the slide, but instead killed him.

Clipart and stock photos mounted on the right and the right location, can still support the appearance of a slide.

The formula, select the appropriate clipart. Learn to understand the aesthetic appearance and graphics. Make it a habit to look at the works of good graphics. Differentiate with the bad. If you know it's bad, do not apply to your work. (Alas ... if we think it's very nice, but apparently others think it is very bad.)

In fact I believe the jargon: Good Copy Bad is better than Original. While you are not able to make the work of the original slide, his sins will be smaller if you imitate others slide, slide worse than the present to make your audience miserable.

Article taken from the book: Business Presentation (published January 14, 2013)
Author: Adi Kusrianto
Publisher: PT Elex Media Komputindo

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Bahaya Akibat Seringnya Memakai Komputer

Pernah sakit mata saat liat monitor terus-terusan? Atau pernah pegal-pegal di daerah pergelangan tangan karena terlalu sering mengetik? Semuanya karena Anda tidak memiliki perangkat yang ergonomis

Ergonomis bertujuan untuk terpenuhinya kesehatan, kenyamanan, dan produktivitas. Ergonomis erat hubungannya dengan desain dan juga kemudahan dalam penggunaan. Berbagai perangkat didesain sedemikian ergonomisnya untuk fungsi kenyamanan tersebut. Perangkat ergonomis memiliki peranan yang vital karena kita cenderung akan menggunakan komputer dalam jangka waktu yang relatif lama. Tanpa kenyamanan maka tidak jarang hal ini memberikan gangguan tersendiri, bahkan jika berlangsung dalam jangka waktu relatif lama akan menimbulkan masalah kesehatan yang cukup serius, misalnya:

• Computer Vision Syndrome adalah kondisi sementara yang dihasilkan dari mata yang fokus pada layar monitor komputer dalam waktu yang lama dan tidak berhenti. Beberapa gejalanya adalah pandangan mata yang kabur, ketegangan pada mata, kering, iritasi, dan mata yang sulit untuk fokus kembali. Selain pada mata, juga pada nyeri leher dan tulang punggung serta keluhan sakit kepala. Untuk menghindarinya, Anda dapat melakukan latihan pada pergelangan tangan, leher, bahu, lengan, jari, dan tangan. Lakukanlah selama kurang lebih lima menit.

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome adalah suatu kondisi medis dimana saraf median dikompresi di pergelangan tangan menuju parestesi. Gejala yang timbul seperti sakit di pergelangan tangan, mati rasa pada tangan ataupun kesemutan dari jari. Untuk menghindarinya, dapat dilakukan dengan latihan sederhana seperti latihan untuk pergelangan tangan, leher, bahu, lengan, jari, dan tangan cukup selama 5 menit.

• Repetitive Strain Injury adalah cedera dari sistem muskuloskeletal dan saraf, yang mungkin disebabkan oleh tugas yang berulang. Gejalanya seperti rasa sakit yang konstan di tangan, siku, bahu, leher, dan punggung. Gejala lainnya adalah seperti kram, kesemutan, dan mati rasa pada tangan. Untuk mencegahnya, sebaiknya Anda menghindari stres berulang, menggunakan peralatan yang ergonomis, dan istirahat.

• Musculoskeletal Disorders adalah gangguan yang terjadi di otot rangka. Gejala yang timbul adalah seperti mati rasa/rasa terbakar pada tangan, berkurangnya kekuatan pegangan di tangan, kekakuan di sendi, sakit di pergelangan tangan, lengan, siku, leher yang disertai rasa tidak nyaman, sakit mata (kering/gatal), pandangan yang kabur, kesemutan, dan kram. Untuk mencegahnya, sebaiknya Anda istirahat dengan teratur (beberapa menit sekali dalam sejam), kerjaan disela dengan kerjaan yang tidak melibatkan komputer, melenturkan badan untuk membuat santai, gunakan peralatan yang nyaman seperti pijakan kaki dan juga pemegang dokumen jika diperlukan, hindari mencengkram mouse terlalu erat, biasakan menggunakan cara singkat di keyboard seperti CTRL+S untuk menyimpan atau CTRL+P untuk mencetak.

Di pasaran banyak yang menjual keyboard dan mouse dengan bentuk, ukuran, dan warna yang sangat bervariasi. Sebagai konsumen, kadang kita lupa untuk memikirkan tingkat kenyamanan saat membeli perangkat itu. Setelah membeli suatu produk, ternyata produk tersebut tidak nyaman dipakai bahkan terkadang sampai menyusahkan diri sendiri. Hal inilah yang disebut dengan ergonomis.
Hendaknya Anda gunakan perangkat yang nyaman, enak dipakai, dan lebih baik lagi apabila perangkat yang kita gunakan walaupun dalam jangka waktu lama, penggunaannya tidak akan membuat lelah. Apabila telapak tangan Anda besar, sebaiknya Anda tidak menggunakan mouse berukuran mini karena akan membuat tangan kita cepat lelah.


Diambil dari buku Cara Salah Membersihkan Komputer & Gadget
Penulis: SEQUOIA Content Production
Penerbit: Elex Media Komputindo

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