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Cloudflare announces Tokyo, Japan as home of its newest APAC office
2020-07-20 22:30

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that Tokyo, Japan, is the home of its newest Asia-Pacific office. Cloudflare first invested in Japan nearly a decade ago, expanding its network into Tokyo in 2010, just months after launching.

Tokyo Olympics Postponed, But 5G Security Lessons Shine
2020-03-26 09:49

I'd like to thank everybody for joining us today for our webinar, "5G, the Olympics and Next Generation Security Challenges." Today, we are going to be hearing from a couple of experts in the arena: Russ Mohr who is an engineer and Apple Evangelist at MobileIron; and also Jerry Ray, who is a COO at SecureAge - he works in Tokyo quite a bit, so he will have some feet-on-the-ground information for us, which is great. Something to note about our agenda, clearly: The hook here is that we're going to use the Tokyo Summer Games as a jumping off point to discuss what's possible with 5G technology rolling out.

IBM and the University of Tokyo partner to advance quantum computing
2019-12-23 00:30

IBM and the University of Tokyo announced an agreement to partner to advance quantum computing and make it practical for the benefit of industry, science and society. IBM and the University of...

ICO scammer Maksim Zaslavskiy to miss 2020 Tokyo Olympics over digital currency fraud
2019-11-20 07:01

Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales A 39 year-old man from New York has been ordered to spend the next 18 months in prison after being convicted of cryptocurrency-based securities fraud.…

Pwn2Own Tokyo Roundup: Amazon Echo, Routers and Smart TVs Fall to Hackers
2019-11-08 16:09

The latest edition of the bi-annual hacking contest saw creative exploits in new device categories.

Russian Hackers Targeting Anti-Doping Agencies Ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
2019-10-29 07:19

As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers....

Bug Hunters Invited to Hack Facebook Devices at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019
2019-08-29 07:11

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) on Wednesday announced the prizes, rules and targets for Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019, which is set to take place on November 6-7 alongside the PacSec conference in...

SAP Ariba adds Japanese company data through partnership with Tokyo Shoko Research
2019-07-24 00:00

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...

Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone X Hacked at Pwn2Own Tokyo
2018-11-13 13:06

Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 smartphones have all been hacked on the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest taking place these days alongside the PacSec security...

Facial recognition tech to be used on Olympians and staff at Tokyo 2020
2018-08-07 14:58

NEC to provide NeoFace kit to 40-plus venues for the games Automated facial recognition systems from Japanese biz NEC will be used on staffers and athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.…