Konnichiwa, this is Kaori at Global Coordination Division. On September 17th, JPCERT/CC and Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) of Japan have jointly issued a notice to raise public awareness to refrain from using a single password for multiple online services. On the same day, JPCERT/CC, as our sole initiative, has launched a local campaign to further promote this practice by having the enterprise supporters to directly encourage their users. This password...
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It's been quite a while. This is Taki again and I will be writing about my experiences at the 26th FIRST Annual Conference in Boston that I attended from June 23 - 27. (Trinity Church - Photo by Hiroshi Kobayashi) This year, I attended the conference with 3 colleagues, Yurie Ito, Koichiro (Sparky) Komiyama and Hiroshi Kobayashi. Having attended the conference on a few occasions in the past, it was...
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Hi! I’m Takuho Mitsunaga from Watch and Warning Group. I am pleased to announce that JPCERT/CC has just released a report "Investigation Report Regarding Security Issues of Web Applications Using HTML5 (English version)." As mentioned in the previous posts - JPCERT/CC at “CODE BLUE” and Presenting HTML5 security at OWASP AppSec APAC 2014, through publishing a report (Japanese version), we have worked to point out the issues and raise awareness...
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I am Toru Yamauchi, Research Director of JPCERT/CC. JPCERT/CC has been contributing to CSIRT community in Africa since 2010 in order to enhance the global cybersecurity activity. In the rapid ICT development in Africa, it is getting important for African community to accelerate human resource development of cybersecurity and to establish the regional cooperation especially among National CSIRTs. I would like to introduce our recent on-site training program in Djibouti...
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Hi there! This is Tetsuya Mizuno from Watch and Warning group. Today, I would like to introduce one of our activities: technical training through TSUBAME project. TSUBAME, headed by JPCERT/CC, is a project using a packet monitoring system which deploys sensors in multiple countries to detect wide-ranging malicious activities on the Internet (without collecting any sensitive data). The project is operated as one of the working groups of APCERT, and...
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Hi. This is Misaki Kimura from Watch and Warning Group. Ever since the extremely critical vulnerability in recent versions of OpenSSL (known as "Heartbleed") was made public, it has been wreaking havoc across the internet. According to Netcraft, a research firm which monitors websites and certificates worldwide, more than half a million websites were affected. Such said, with no exceptions, websites in Japan were also affected, and we have been...
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Hello everyone! This is Yuka from the Global Coordination Division and APCERT Secretariat. Today I would like to tell you about the biggest event of APCERT, the 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Conference - 2014 which was held from 18th to 21st March in Taipei. 21 Operational Member teams participated in this reunion as well as some delegates from invited parties. TWNCERT was a host of this event, and...
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Hi. This is Yoshinori Matsumoto from Watch and Warning Group. After JPCERT/CC’s publication of a technical research report on HTML5 last October, our group has been working intensively to raise awareness on security issues of web applications utilizing HTML5. We have been given opportunities to speak at various security conferences on this topic, and one of them was my colleague’s presentation at "CODE BLUE" introduced on this blog earlier. This...
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Hello, this is Moto Kawasaki, a new member of Global Coordination Division. Alerts from JPRS and JPCERT/CC On April 14th 2014, JPRS (Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.) and JPCERT/CC concurrently published the alerts on DNS cache poisoning attack. Alert from JPRS http://jprs.jp/tech/security/2014-04-15-portrandomization.html (Japanese version) Alert from JPCERT/CC https://www.jpcert.or.jp/english/at/2014/at140016.html (English version) https://www.jpcert.or.jp/at/2014/at140016.html (Japanese version) Now I'd like to elaborate on the key points and share my views on the case by...
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Hello, I am Yukako (Yuka) Uchida from APCERT Secretariat. I am a new Liaison Officer of the Global Coordination Division since last December. From 18th to 28th February, APRICOT 2014 (https://2014.apricot.net/) had been held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. APRICOT, which stands for Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, is an annual meeting for internet engineers in the region. They have kindly offered APCERT a one-day slot on 26...
