Hi, this is Misaki Kimura from Watch and Warning Group. Another new year has come and gone, and as I look back over about the significant security trends that took place in 2016, it is needless to mention that security threat landscape is ever evolving and increasingly complex. As a basis for what we can prepare for 2017, I’d like to review security headlines in 2016 by referring to the...
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NOTE: This article, originally published on May 28, 2015, was updated as of June 8, 2015 (See below). Just 2 days ago, we published an advisory (in Japanese) on an open proxy issue of a widely used, open source, web browser game utility app called KanColleViewer. The game, Kantai Collection, has explosive popularity. Its official Twitter account has over 1 million followers, and according to its Tweet, the game has...
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Hello all, this is Yohei Tanaka from Analysis Center. In this article, I will introduce how recent malware tries to trick users with fake thumbnail previews – I hope this information prevents you from encountering troubles. The majority of malware distributed via email nowadays are executable files (.exe) or compressed executable files, rather than document files that attempt to leverage software vulnerabilities. We at JPCERT/CC have seen cases where users...
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Hello and Happy Holiday Season to everybody. Taki again, and today I will write about some experiences in product (software, hardware) vulnerability coordination this year. - Introduction - A lot happened this year and I do not have the time to go through everything, but would like to go over some of the major issues that we handled and for those that are not familiar, provide a very brief overview...
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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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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...
