Security News

NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak
2024-03-01 05:27

NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to 9.28 million customers that came to light last October. Often resignations are avoided if a leader simply offers up a chunk of their salary instead. On Thursday, NTT West apologized for the leak and released details of a related investigation.

NTT Research names Matthew Ireland as CISO
2021-04-25 22:30

Most recently a consulting Practice Manager and Executive Security Strategist at NTT Ltd., Ireland is a technology leader with management experience in security services, consulting, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, law enforcement and emergency services and three decades of technical experience in information security, IT systems, networks and enterprise operations. "We are so pleased to have Matt Ireland on board," said NTT Research President and CEO, Kazuhiro Gomi.

Syniverse and NTT DOCOMO offer inbound 5G roaming service in Japan
2020-10-08 23:30

Syniverse said it is working with NTT DOCOMO to be the first to offer inbound 5G roaming service to mobile operators and their mobile customers when traveling to Japan. DOCOMO launched in September an inbound 5G roaming service to allow foreign mobile operators and their customers visiting Japan to roam on DOCOMO's 5G network.

NTT Communications and IDSA develop global platform for cross-field data utilization
2020-09-28 23:00

NTT Communications announced that beginning October 1 it will collaborate with the International Data Spaces Association in a demonstration test as the first phase of contributing to the development of a secure, global data-management platform that assures interoperability between data platforms built and managed in countries worldwide. The test environment for sharing highly confidential data securely will include IDS Connectors, the core technology of GAIA-X, a federated data infrastructure for Europe, and NTT Com's Things Cloud IoT platform and Smart Data Platform5, the later incorporating Data Trust policies.

NTT DATA partners with Dataiku and Snowflake to deliver end-to-end AI capabilities
2020-09-21 00:00

NTT DATA Services announced the addition of two new data partners, Dataiku and Snowflake, the cloud data platform, to its robust partner ecosystem. In 2019, NTT DATA shared AI guidelines as part of its AI Center of Excellence program and launched Nucleus, an intelligent enterprise platform with AI and automation engines that helps clients create smarter digital solutions.

NTT DATA Services to acquire Acorio to drive transformative business outcomes for clients
2020-08-30 23:30

NTT DATA Services has entered an agreement to acquire Acorio to expand its capacity to drive transformative business outcomes for clients. "Especially now, our clients are looking to accelerate their digital transformations. Acorio is a proven leader in implementing ServiceNow and its ecosystem to automate workflows in order to unite and empower all other enterprise technology," said Eric Clark, Chief Digital Officer, NTT DATA Services.

NTT DATA offers tools and services to support new technology challenges schools are facing
2020-08-21 02:00

NTT DATA Services offers tools and services designed to support the new technology challenges colleges, universities and K-12 schools are facing. For K-12 educational systems, NTT DATA's Classroom in a Box offers collaboration and communication tools and services, including laptops, noise-canceling headsets, reliable Wi-Fi and technical support, to allow teachers and students to get back to teaching and learning.

NTT Communications Data Breach Affects Customers, Threatens Supply Chain
2020-05-29 16:45

Japan-based systems integrator NTT Communications has disclosed a recent data breach that it said impacted hundreds of customers. NTT Communications did not clarify what kind of data may have been accessed, nor did it mention how attackers were able to move laterally on the network.

Japanese ICT Solutions Provider NTT Com Discloses Data Breach
2020-05-29 06:43

NTT Communications, a subsidiary of Japanese tech giant NTT Corp, on Thursday disclosed a data breach impacting hundreds of customers. In a post on its Japanese-language website, NTT Com, a provider of information and communications technology solutions, said it detected unauthorized access to some systems on May 7 and over the following week it determined that some files may have been stolen.

NTT warns its Japanese cloud may have been compromised
2020-05-29 01:36

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.