Japan police to ally with hackers in tactical shift
Japanese police are adopting a new strategy for fighting cybercrime that includes teaming up with hackers to catch criminals.
Jay Alabaster | 04 Feb | Read more
Japanese police are adopting a new strategy for fighting cybercrime that includes teaming up with hackers to catch criminals.
Jay Alabaster | 04 Feb | Read more
A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony £250,000 (US$396,000) for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011.
Jay Alabaster | 24 Jan | Read more
Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks -- and they're willing to pay.
Jay Alabaster | 13 Dec | Read more
Japan's space agency said Friday that sensitive information on a new long-range rocket project may have been stolen by a computer virus.
Jay Alabaster | 30 Nov | Read more
An online debate has broken out over a Japanese mobile app that may have published as many as 760,000 address book records from its users in a publicly searchable database.
Jay Alabaster | 10 Oct | Read more
A Japanese military panel on Friday released a new set of guidelines for dealing with cyber attacks against the nation, saying that in certain circumstances they could warrant a military response.
Jay Alabaster | 07 Sep | Read more
Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China and Taiwan, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised.
Jay Alabaster | 06 Sep | Read more
Several Japanese government ministries were investigating minor Web breaches Thursday, after what appeared to be threats of cyber attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous.
Jay Alabaster | 28 Jun | Read more
None of the recently leaked Twitter logins and passwords came from within the company, according to a message posted on Twitter's Japanese blog Thursday.
Jay Alabaster | 10 May | Read more
A Japanese bank will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards, it said Wednesday.
Jay Alabaster | 11 Apr | Read more
Two Japanese ministries issued a rare public reminder to Google about the country's privacy laws, just as the search giant rolled out its controversial new privacy policy.
Jay Alabaster | 02 Mar | Read more