North Korea appears to be stepping up efforts to secure bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which could be used to avoid trade restrictions, a new report from security researcher FireEye Inc. states. Hackers from Kim Jong Un's regime are increasing their attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in ...
Feeling trapped in her "boring" life as a member of China's modern workforce, "Yaorenmao" escapes online, where she prances and preens in cosplay outfits for her 1.3 million fans. Her alternative world is bilibili.com, a Shanghai-based video-sharing platform that has attracted more than 150 million ...
It was a distinctly Floridian twist: a sheriff in the southeastern U.S. state known for its love of guns has warned residents not to shoot at Hurricane Irma after an online prank promoting the idea went viral. "To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma," ...
It could be the worst-ever data breach for American consumers, exposing some of the most sensitive data for a vast number of U.S. households. The hack disclosed this week at Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus which collect consumer financial data, potentially affects ...
A major American credit reporting agency entrusted to safeguard personal financial information said Thursday that hackers looted its system, in a colossal breach that could affect nearly half the U.S. population as well as people in Britain and Canada. Equifax said that a hack it ...
Police on Tuesday referred a 13-year-old boy in Osaka to a juvenile consultation center after he was suspected of providing instruction on how to obtain a basic smartphone virus through an online marketplace. The boy, a second grader at a junior high school, has admitted ...
The boom in cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology is becoming too big for central banks, long the guardian of official money, to ignore. Until recently, officials at major central banks were happy to watch as pioneers in the field progressed by trial and error, safe ...
The communications ministry plans to employ decoy networks to lure cyberattacks in order to garner information and observe patterns that will help prevent future damage from malicious viruses and other forms of attack, sources said Tuesday. The test, which is aimed to quickly respond to ...
Google Inc. on Saturday accepted responsibility for the widespread internet disruptions Japan experienced the previous day. The search engine giant apologized for the trouble, saying it was caused by an errant network setting that was corrected within eight minutes of its discovery. Google did not say ...
Plans to distribute NHK content simultaneously via broadcast and the internet raise many important questions about user fees.
A widespread internet disruption hit Japan on Friday, blocking access to banking and train reservation services as well as gaming sites. The disruption was limited to the networks of NTT Communications Corp. and KDDI Corp. NTT Communications, which runs the OCN internet service, said the problem ...
District of Columbia Superior Court judge on Thursday approved a government warrant seeking data from an anti-Trump website related to Inauguration Day protests, but he added protections to safeguard "innocent users." Chief Judge Robert Morin said DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web-hosting company, must turn over ...
