Hi. This is Misaki Kimura at Watch and Warning Group. We have been tracking and compiling information on website compromises, impacting thousands of legitimate websites in Japan. The number of compromised websites increased significantly in the first half of JFY 2013: more than 5,200 sites have been compromised from April 1 to October 31, 2013. The following chart illustrates the number of compromised websites detected each month in Japan, counted...
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Hi, it's Masaki Kubo. I’ve just returned from my trip to Incheon, Korea, where we had an ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 meeting on standardization of IT security techniques. JPCERT/CC has been engaged in this standardization effort through the Japanese national body over the past years, and I participated particularly in the revision work of ISO/IEC 27035:2011 on information security incident management. ISO/IEC 27035:2011 was published in 2011 and right after...
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I'm Shoko Nakai, a member of the Incident Response Group. It was back in 1998 when I first started corresponding with my friends over the Internet. I was a student then and had the opportunity to participate in a short study program in the United States. I was invited to several social events, and people asked me to exchange e-mail addresses by writing it on a piece of paper. But...
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Update 2013.8.1] MITRE has prepared a page describing the change in CVE format. The page is at the following: CVE-ID Syntax Change https://cve.mitre.org/cve/identifiers/syntaxchange.html Stated on the site, this change is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2014. This page describes some of the background behind the change and towards the bottom of the page there is a list of some frequently asked questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, this is Taki...
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Hi, I'm Misaki Kimura, a member of the Watch and Warning Group, and this is my first time to post here. My duty here at JPCERT/CC is to monitor various security related information and to share them internally/externally to support taking earliest countermeasures. Today’s topic is about the recent phishing trends in Japan, which includes the phishing incidents observed and efforts for mitigation. Phishing became so prevalent that we frequently...
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G’day! This is Shiori Kubo from JPCERT/CC, serving as a member of the APCERT Secretariat. Today I would like to cover APCERT’s 10th anniversary, commemorated at the APCERT AGM & Conference 2013, held on 23rd - 27th March 2013 in Brisbane, Australia, very warmly and successfully hosted by CERT Australia. About APCERT For readers who are not familiar with APCERT, please let me briefly introduce – APCERT stands for Asia...
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Hello, it's Taki here and it has been a long time since I last wrote here. Today's topic is about the following: Call for Public Feedback on Upcoming CVE ID Syntax Change https://cve.mitre.org/news/index.html#jan242013a Before I get into the details of what is said here, I would like to quickly introduce CVE. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and it is managed by The MITRE Corporation in the US. CVE...
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