Student admits stealing online shopping account details: police
Police referred a 16-year-old high school student to prosecutors on Friday on suspicion of using software on other people's computers to obtain the online account details of several hundred people, including records of their online shopping. The male student from Tokyo's Ota Ward is suspected ...
Fukushima radioactive waste storage operator's intranet infected by virus
The internal computer network of the state-run Japan Environmental Storage & Safety Corp., which manages temporary storage sites for decontaminated waste from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been infected by a computer virus, the Environment Ministry said Wednesday. The operator also known as JESCO, an ...
New cybersecurity strategy to be approved around June, government says
The government plans to draft a new cybersecurity strategy and have it approved by the Cabinet around June. It will also mount attacks on computer networks operated by all government ministries and agencies to assess how secure they are, officials said Tuesday. Cabinet ministers met with ...
New threats, new costs as Japanese companies face up to new tactics from cyberattackers
A spate of high-profile cybercrimes and data leaks in recent months has left companies wondering if they will be next. They worry about the safety of their computer networks as hackers devise new ways to penetrate traditional defenses. Companies are spending more on protecting their ...
Malware targets users seeking info on Islamic State group
Sophisticated computer malware has been infecting computers when users visit certain blogs that discuss the Islamic State militant group. The Tokyo-based Cyber Defense Institute said Wednesday that several Arabic-language blogs offering apparently independent analysis of issues around the Islamic State contain hidden code which gets ...
A man on trial for allegedly making bomb threats and taunting the media via hijacked computers changes his plea to guilty after being implicated in a fresh incident.
New SDF unit shores up thinly protected cyberborders
Japan has embarked on an effort to improve cybersecurity as an ever-increasing number of sophisticated computer viruses threaten to endanger national security. On March 26, the Self-Defense Forces activated a cyberspace defense unit, the "saiba boeitai," tasked with monitoring and responding to attacks on the ...
Tokyo police arrest a man suspected of making anonymous online threats last year by remotely manipulating other people's computers.
