You may well have heard of the May cyber attack in Japan against the Japan Pension Service – a high-profile case seen in the first half of this year, where 1.25 million cases of personal data was exposed. According to the Japan Pension Service, the data leaked included names and ID numbers, and for some cases, dates of birth and home addresses. The official reports(1) say that the massive leak...
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Hi, it’s Shusei Tomonaga again from the Analysis Center. JPCERT/CC has confirmed several attack cases around May 2015, which attempt to steal information of computers leveraging specific network devices featuring VPN server functions. The target of the reconnaissance varies from installed software to keylogs, and it is presumed that the attacker has aimed to steal such information from computers which attempt to login to VPN servers through altered login pages....
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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...
