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Nagoya Port needed three days to fully recover from a cyberattack that crippled every procedure in loading and unloading cargo.

A cyberattack on a hospital in Tokushima Prefecture in October occurred after a company disabled anti-virus software on the hospitals computers, according to a report published on June 7. 

A Japanese former member of “Anonymous” expressed disappointment at the international hacking group’s “cyberwar” against Russia, saying the operation strays too far from the network’s original purpose.

A hacker group has claimed responsibility for the theft of sensitive corporate information from a major parts supplier to Toyota Motor Corp. group and is threatening to soon release the information online.

A computer virus that wreaked havoc around the world but was thought to have been largely wiped out has returned from the dead, seemingly to haunt Japanese companies and administrative offices in particular.

Hackers targeted major auto parts manufacturer Denso Corp. in a ransomware cyberattack in late December, but company officials said the incident has not affected business operations.

TSURUGI, Tokushima Prefecture—Handa Hospital staff here knew something was wrong when more than 10 printers started spewing out streams of paper. But the panic only set in after they read the message, written in English, on the printouts.

The Tokyo headquarters of Soliton Systems K.K., which developed the FileZen file-sharing server (Hidemasa Yoshizawa) Cabinet Office officials failed to share information about a computer security breach for three months with local governments that also use the same file-sharing server. An investigation into the FileZen server equipment developed by Soliton Systems K.K., a major IT equipment company based in Tokyo, found a breach in late January and that files had been illegally accessed, Cabine...

The building where the Cabinet Office is housed in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo) A file-sharing server used by the Cabinet Office and Cabinet Secretariat officials was illegally accessed and the personal information of hundreds of people may have been stolen, the Cabinet Office revealed on April 22. The top government offices use the server to share files with outside organizations. The files involved in the data breach were determined to have contained the personal informat...

Leaked information related to a VPN device manufactured by Fortinet of the United States posted to a site used by hackers (Tatsuya Sudo) People working from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic may want to think twice about consulting the National Police Agency about computer security. The agency failed to stop hackers from breaking into one of its personal computers 46 times between August 2019 and mid-November this year, red-faced officials announced on Nov. 27. “Its extremely embarra...