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In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.

Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel this week disclosed cyber intrusions they suffered back in 2016 and 2018. Pasco is Japan's largest geospatial service provider and Kobe Steel is a major steel manufacturer.

Japanese IT and electronics company NEC Corporation has revealed that hackers had access to its network for a long time, but the incident occurred several years ago. The attack, NEC says, was initially discovered in July 2017, when a report from the security company contracted by the electronics giant revealed unauthorized communications between computers on the internal network and external entities.

SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, announced a new fully localized version of the SentinelOne platform for the Japanese market. To support the company’s six hundred percent...

Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view...

'If only you could see what I've seen through your eyes'... A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived...

Multiyear campaigns stretching back to at least 2014 have been seen using zero-days in region-specific software.

SAP Ariba announced a new partnership with Tokyo Shoko Research (TSR) to integrate data on more than 8.4 million Japanese companies covering over 200 evaluation criteria into the SAP Ariba...

Fast Retailing Says Credential Stuffing SuspectedFast Retailing, the parent company of several of Japan's biggest retail clothing chains, is warning customers of an attack that exposed email...

Japan will hack citizens' IoT devices to mop up cyber security before the Olympics. Don't like the notion? Here's how to lock 'em down!