Report: Japan Fesses Up to First Cyber Attack on Defense Industry

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHI, Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters. The attack, first discovered in early August, is believed to have...

GlobalSign Set to Resume CA Operations

GlobalSign is still in the process of completing the investigation into whether its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, but the company on Tuesday was ready to resume some of its operations under “high-threat” conditions. The company said that it has found evidence that its main...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

PlayStation Network Full Restoration by End of Week, Except in Japan

More than a month after suffering an “external intrusion” that shut down the PlayStation Network PSN, Sony announced today that it will fully restore PSN services by the end of the week in most countries. However, PSN users in Sony’s native Japan will have to wait, as the Japanese government awai...

Japan Keeps PlayStation Network Dark, Citing Security Concerns

Sony’s PlayStation Network began a gradual restoration process on Saturday following a hack that brought about nearly a month of downtime. But in Sony’s home country of Japan, an official says the government will keep the network dark until it is convinced that the company has taken adequate step...

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million users personal info hacked in Japan !

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan ! Personal information on a total of 100 million people has possibly been hacked and leaked from online game and other Internet services provided by the Sony Group worldwide, sparking fears that it could develop into the...

Remote DoS Flaw in BIND Fixed in New Version

The Internet Systems Consortium released an advisory today informing BIND users that certain types of queries to name servers can cause the servers to crash and create a denial-of-service condition. This remotely exploitable bug only affects BIND users with the Response Policy Zones RPZ feature...

Waves of Tsunami Spam Continue

There has been no respite from the tsunami of scam-emails taking advantage of the natural disaster-nuclear meltdown combo punch that is hitting Japan, according to research from Kaspersky Labs. As pleas for charitable donations for victims of the magnitude 9 earthquake in northern Japan fill the...

Website collecting donations for Japan hacked !

Hackers took down the website of a Tennessee nonprofit that was collecting donations for Japan and replaced the home page with profanity. Japan-America Society of Tennessee executive director Leigh Weiland said hackers broke into the site sometime Wednesday night. The group's web-hosting company...

Experts Warn Of Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Spam

As the Pacific Rim braces for deadly Tsunami’s spawned by today’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, the SANS Internet Storm Center says users should be on the lookout for a different kind of Tsunami: scam e-mail and Web pages looking to turn curiosity about the events in Japan into illicit gain...

Nintendo 3DS also got Hacked Within 24 Hours after Release !

The new Nintendo 3DS didn't last 24 hours in Japan before hackers jailbroke the device to support Revolution For DS R4 flash cards that play old Nintendo games. Although R4 cards were built for Nintendo DS, the hackers show how they can use the storage cards to run homebrew and older Nintendo gam...

8) Your next wallet is a phone. Discuss.

Mobile payments have been going strong in countries like Japan and Finland for years now. In the U.S., however, its taken longer for mobile payments to get a hold on consumers. That’s all about to change. Late model mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone and Google Android-based phones now offer...

CVE-2010-3518

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM GP - Japan component in Oracle PeopleSoft and JDEdwards Suite 8.81 SP1 Bundle 13, 8.9 GP Update 2010-E, 9.0 GP Update 2010-E, and 9.1 GP Update 2010-E allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM GP - Japan component in Oracle PeopleSoft and JDEdwards Suite 8.81 SP1 Bundle 13, 8.9 GP Update 2010-E, 9.0 GP Update 2010-E, and 9.1 GP Update 2010-E allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown...

CVE-2010-3518

CVE-2010-3518 is an unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM GP - Japan component (Oracle PeopleSoft/JD Edwards Suite) affecting versions 8.81 SP1 Bundle #13, 8.9 GP Update 2010-E, 9.0 GP Update 2010-E, and 9.1 GP Update 2010-E. It allows remote authenticated users to affect con...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.japanauctioncenter.com

Security researcher haRI, has submitted on 22/06/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.japanauctioncenter.com, which at the time of submission ranked 3036896 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 21/12/2011. It i...

Hentai Malware Criminals Arrested in Japan

Japanese police have arrested two men over suspected involvement in a Hentai-themed malware scam campaign. Read the full article. The Register...

Gumblar Botnet Shifts Tactics

The criminals behind the Gumblar botnet and malware campaign have been adapting their techniques, as attackers are wont to do, in order not only to evade detection but to prevent researchers from downloading and analyzing new versions of the malware. A new analysis of the recent activity by Gumbl...

Code injection

Internet Initiative Japan SEIL/X1, SEIL/X2, and SEIL/B1 firmware 2.30 through 2.51, when NAT is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system restart via crafted GRE packets...