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Vulnerabilities patched earlier this year in Firefox and Internet Explorer have been exploited by an advanced persistent threat actor in attacks aimed at China and Japan. Both vulnerabilities were exploited in attacks before patches were released.
Cohesity announces the appointment of Junichi Iwakami as President and Representative Director of Cohesity Japan, effective on March 16, 2020. Under his leadership, Cohesity Japan will continue delivering modern data management software that enables businesses to easily back up, store, manage, and derive insights from their data - on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge - through the Cohesity DataPlatform.
"As the eyes of the world turn to Japan for major international events, Trend Micro continues to do what it has always done best - building global partnerships that will help to secure the connected world we all live in," said Akihiro Omikawa, executive vice president for Trend Micro. The first agreement is with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, a government agency responsible for providing overseas development aid and nurturing social economic growth in developing nations.
2 - the world's largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals - announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, which will bring more local-language cybersecurity training to Japan. Now recognized as an Official Training Provider of2, NTT-AT offers public training on the official Certified Cloud Security Professional Common Body of Knowledge, helping to strengthen cloud security capabilities of organizations throughout Japan.
Bug disclosure service HackerOne was in the rare position of publicizing one of its own security holes this week after a researcher discovered a flaw that was exposing some user email addresses. Tenable says Microsoft won't fix Group Policy bug.
Hackers are using global fears about the spread of the virus to target people in Japan with the Emotet trojan, a popular strain of malware that has been devastatingly effective at attacking governments and financial institutions. Threat researchers with Kaspersky identified other attempts to spread Emotet using the coronavirus scare as a way to get people to open emails or files and share them.
Endace, a world leader in high-speed network recording, playback and analytics hosting, announced that Cornet Solutions has been appointed as a key reseller in Japan. Since 1998, Cornet Solutions...
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange said Friday it had halted all services after losing cryptocurrency worth more than $32 million in the latest apparent hack involving virtual money. read more
Personal information belonging to millions of Toyota customers in Japan may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by a Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its...
A new variant of the Ursnif trojan has been discovered targeting Japan since the beginning of 2019. Japan is a common target for Ursnif, but the latest version, delivered by Bebloh, goes to...