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CYBERATTACKS

BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 12, 2014
White House, spy agencies deny NSA exploited 'Heartbleed' bug
The White House and U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday that neither the National Security Agency nor any other part of the government was aware before this month of the "Heartbleed" bug, denying a report that the spy agency exploited the glitch in widely used Web encryption technology to gather intelligence.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 9, 2014
'Heartbleed' bug undoes Web encryption, exposes private data
A newly discovered bug in widely used Web encryption technology has made data on many of the world's major websites vulnerable to theft by hackers in what experts say is one of the most serious security flaws uncovered in recent years.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2014
U.S. urges restraint in cyberspace
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, pushing for openness ahead of a trip to China, said Friday in an unusual live broadcast from a secretive base that the Pentagon would exercise restraint in using the military in cyberspace and urged other nations to do so as well.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2014
Japan to form cyberspace defense unit Wednesday
The Defense Ministry will launch a cyberspace defense unit Wednesday tasked with responding to attacks on the networks of the ministry and the Self-Defense Forces.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 10, 2014
Suspected Russian spyware targets Europe, United States
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyberespionage programs uncovered to date.
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 6, 2014
DDoS cyberattacks grow bigger, smarter, more damaging
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyberattacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 11, 2014
Record 12.8 billion cyberattacks seen in Japan last year
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology detected a record 12.8 billion cyberattacks on government and other organizations in Japan in 2013.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2014
Japan, U.S. to team up in training people to counter cyberattacks
Japanese and U.S. defense officials have agreed to boost their cooperation in training people to counter increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2013
Bureaucrats can be punished if state secrets leak during cyberattacks
Civil servants placed in charge of information management could be punished under the newly enacted secrecy law if secrets leak due to cyberattacks, an internal government document said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2013
Japan seeks cyberwarfare capability
Discussions are under way to determine whether Japan should have the ability to counter foreign cyberattacks and what its constitutional limits might be.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2013
Security panel to discuss Japan's response to cyberattacks on allies
An expert government panel on ending Japan's self-imposed ban on exercising the right to collective self-defense will discuss the country's response to cyberattacks, a government source said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2013
Beware the Internet and the danger of cyberattacks
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson has had it with the Internet. He says its astonishing capability to access information is not worth the dangers from cyberwar.

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