We can report that everyone at JPCERT/CC is fine following the terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit near Miyagi Prefecture on 11 March 2011. The situation in Tokyo, to the south of the main island of Honshu, is comparatively stable at this point. By far, the worst of the damage is to the north of Japan, and our thoughts are with everyone affected at this time. JPCERT/CC is operating at...
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Hello, this is Koichiro Sparky Komiyama. I'm the manager of the Global Coordination Division in JPCERT/CC. Our team's main missions are 1) to communicate with CSIRTs / Security groups in other countries, and 2) to help other countries / economies develop their own CSIRTs. In this post I would like to introduce readers to one aspect of our CSIRT development work. By the request by Dr Kilnam Chon, the leader...
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Some weeks ago, JPCERT/CC and various news sites in Japan observed an interesting domain apparently targeting a Japanese government site (do not visit, potentially malicious): www. e-kokusei. go. jp. netNote the ".net" at the end. So, what is the presumed target, e-kokusei.go.jp? It's the site of the first national census conducted electronically in Japan. As well as a traditional paper form, each census information package also contained a sealed, unique...
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For anyone doing incident response in the mid-2000s, you'd no doubt be familiar with the massive upswing in phishing attacks around then. Working in the AusCERT incident response team at the time, we were swamped with scams chiefly targeting Australian banks and financial institutions. Handling a large volume of phishing attacks quickly became a part of our daily routine, and they continue to be part of the landscape. In early...
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Welcome to the JPCERT/CC blog. JPCERT is the national CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) for Japan. We cover a fair amount of ground, including incident response, software vulnerability handling, malware analysis, running sensor networks, overseeing the Anti-Phishing Council of Japan (Japanese), running training courses, and lots besides. You can see more about what we do at the JPCERT home page. To introduce myself, my name is Chris Horsley. I'm an...
