japan – Noise

China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:02:28 +0000

The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:

The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

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The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself...

AWS achieves its third ISMAP authorization in Japan

Hidetoshi Takeuchi — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:13:19 +0000

Earning and maintaining customer trust is an ongoing commitment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our customers’ security requirements drive the scope and portfolio of the compliance reports, attestations, and certifications that we pursue. We’re excited to announce that AWS has achieved authorization under the Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP), effective from April […]

AWS achieves its second ISMAP authorization in Japan

Hidetoshi Takeuchi — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:00:48 +0000

Earning and maintaining customer trust is an ongoing commitment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our customers’ security requirements drive the scope and portfolio of the compliance reports, attestations, and certifications we pursue. We’re excited to announce that AWS has achieved authorization under the Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) program, effective from April […]

Cloudflare is redefining employee well-being in Japan

Tomonari Sato — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:04 +0000

Cloudflare Japan is making a few important changes to our employee benefits

Tomonari Sato: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Japan

Tomonari Sato — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:00:01 +0000

I’m excited to announce that I recently joined Cloudflare in Japan as Vice-President and Managing Director, to help build and expand our customer, partner base, and presence in Japan

Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:05:06 +0000

Symantec is reporting on an APT group linked to China, named Cicada. They have been attacking organizations in Japan and elsewhere.

Cicada has historically been known to target Japan-linked organizations, and has also targeted MSPs in the past. The group is using living-off-the-land tools as well as custom malware in this attack campaign, including a custom malware — Backdoor.Hartip — that Symantec has not seen being used by the group before. Among the machines compromised during this attack campaign were domain controllers and file servers, and there was evidence of files being exfiltrated from some of the compromised machines...

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:53:54 +0000

Asa ika means "morning squid" in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:53:54 +0000

Asa ika means “morning squid” in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.