Business Mar 19, 2014
East Japan Railway Co. has suspended a credit-swapping service for its Suica electronic fare card users after detecting a wave of unauthorized log-in attempts on its website. JR East said Tuesday it found signs of unauthorized access to its Suica Point Club website at around ...
Business / Tech Mar 10, 2014
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyberespionage programs uncovered to date. Several security researchers and Western intelligence officers say they believe the malware, widely known as ...
World | FOCUS Mar 6, 2014
DDoS cyberattacks grow bigger, smarter, more damaging
by Peter Apps
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyberattacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet. While some attackers are diehard activists, criminal gangs or nations looking for a covert way to hit enemies, others are just teen hackers looking ...
National Feb 3, 2014
A University of Tokyo cosmological institute said Monday that its research data became publicly accessible for some time until Jan. 27 following unauthorized access to its computer server. The research activities at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe were interrupted ...
Business / Tech Dec 26, 2013
With misinformation rife on social media, users could do with a tool that can sift truth from fiction. Now Sejeong Kwon and colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have designed an artificial intelligence system that, they claim, does this correctly around ...
Editorials Dec 20, 2013
The Metropolitan Police Department has given up on its investigation of a 2010 cyber-attack against Japan's biggest defense contractor, unable to confirm the source of the attack.
Business / Tech Dec 20, 2013
Target security breach exposed up to 40 million credit, debit cards
Hackers gained access to as many as 40 million credit and debit cards used by customers of Target during the height of the holiday shopping season, the company reported Thursday, in one of the biggest data breaches in history. Company officials offered few details on ...
World Nov 30, 2013
Key officials back splitting NSA, Cyber Command
by Ellen Nakashima
Key senior administration officials have advocated splitting the leadership of the largest U.S. spy agency from that of the military's cyberwarfare command as a final White House decision nears, according to individuals briefed on the discussions. At a White House meeting of senior national security ...
Business / Tech Nov 24, 2013
Twitter beefs up users' data security
by Jemima Kiss
Twitter has announced a significant increase in its data security as it moves to protect users from attacks by the "apex predators" of the Internet. An internal team of security engineers has spent several months implementing "perfect forward secrecy," which adds an extra layer of ...
National Nov 10, 2013
Anti-nuclear, civic groups targeted in large-scale cyber-attacks
At least 33 civic groups nationwide — many of them anti-nuclear organizations — have been hit by a series of cyber-attacks bombarding them with a total of 2.53 million email messages since mid-September.