Security System Gray on Facebook

Jakarta - A few days ago have been held with the Conference of the CERT in the Asia Pacific region or also known as The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT). CERT cooperation among the Asia Pacific region has been established since 2003 and began conducting the conference since 2004.

APCERT 2010 held in Phuket, Thailand on 3-5 March 2010 and acted as host this time is the THAI-CERT. Of course Indonesia participated as one of the countries that already have national CERT and has been recognized that the Asia Pacific CERT ID-SIRTII (Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure). ID-SIRTII had just formed in early 2007 and officially became the General APCERT Member since June 2009.

Whatever APCERT discussed in this Conference. The most crucial issues currently considered by the members of the CERT is safety in Social Networking (Security on Social Network) can be said that it is safe and not safe.

Say safe, because all the information protected. On a social networking site of Facebook is very popular, they protect the only way Facebook Facebook members are able to connect to social networking sites and only the official account can have spoken to each other and exchange information, protect user accounts with some security such as user id and password (standard), master, security can personalize the settings set by the user itself, to close the account if Facebook does not want to use.

It said it was not safe because if we've become a member / member, information can be retrieved by anyone and at any time by a friend or a friend who claims to be a user / object of exploitation. The information placed on Facebook accounts are meant for the hackers to gather information in an attempt to break down user accounts in other places.

APCERT Delegates dazzled by what is delivered by a team APCERT conference in Indonesia this time, because Indonesia (ID-SIRTII) as the last team to join the APCERT, it occupies the largest Internet user number 2 in Asia Pacific after China with over 380 million users (total population 1.5 billion more).

Indonesia already has a number of Internet users reached 45 million more (total population 250 million more) and supported by more than 300 ISPs who have official permission from the Director General of Post and Telecommunication, Internet users is growing exponentially every day.

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Why is the number of Internet users in Indonesia may increase significantly? First, it is influenced by the thirst of information consumed by the internet user.

The second is the growth of social networking sites like Facebook, the Twitter, blogs and many others. Third, the Internet is very cheap to buy a monthly subscription can be so cheap Rp 50,000, even on demand, anytime connectivity to the Internet user can directly contact each provider and with a very enthusiastic internet provider will serve its customers.

Fourth is the device that is already terjangkaunya using qwerty keyboard, such as BlackBerry, Nokia, and others. Moreover, China's mobile phone under a million with keyboradnya qwerty, gsm modem plus an affordable and can be used anywhere and anytime. And of course the Internet user growth is also a potential marketing for the product owners, because it started growing a variety of messenger services.

Facebook representatives from the United States presented the Indonesian Facebook user has reached the largest sequence number 2 after the U.S. with 20.5%. Compared to other countries, visitors to social networking on the Internet continues to grow every day and can be said as a community to look for new things, mutual sharing of information, images, and other content.

But Facebook does not deny the existence of several cases that occur because of the impact of facebook like kidnapping, rape, harassment until the most hits is committing suicide.

Facebook said it was concerned with these things, but all returned to the user, because they are very close to a network of friends, then Facebook can not control the user content uploaded to the account.

In closing this report, the Chairman APCERT this time carried by the HK-CERT (Hong Kong) and the deputy is SING-CERT (Singapore), APCERT Secretariat is still being done in Japan (JP-CERT), Indonesia (ID-SIRTII) because it is still very new, General Member and still can assume it is not one of these positions in APCERT, compared with the Thai-Sing-CERT and CERT are already a member of CERT since 2003.

(Choi)