Symantec.cloud Appoints Brenton Smith Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan Regions
August 24, 2011 No CommentSymantec.cloud has appointed Brenton Smith new vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan regions. Smith joins Symantec.cloud from CA Technologies where he acted as managing director of Australia and New Zealand. Additionally, he has worked in a number of managment and sales roles at companies such as Siebel Systems, Brightstar Information Technology Group, BusinessObjects and [...]
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Japan has reportedly passed new legislation that will impose tougher prison terms for those who create or spread malware, according to Japan Times. Under the new cyber crime bill, those found guilty of creating or distributing malware could get a maximum of three years in prison or approximately $6,250 in fines. Possessing or storing a [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission last week moved closer to adopting the recommendations in the National Broadband Plan by implementing a Notice of Inquiry seeking public comment on how to further bolster the reliability and resiliency of the nation’s communications networks. “The recent devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan are a stark reminder of how heavily [...]
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The U.S. Cyber Command has restricted Defense Department workers’ access to streaming-video websites such as YouTube, Amazon and Googlevideo, according to The Associated Press. Officials say the overwhelming demand to see the Japan earthquake is using up the much-needed bandwidth already weakened by Internet problems in that region of the world. Cyber Command has directed [...]
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Japanese police have arrested two people suspected of stealing virtual characters and goods from players of a popular online game, Sophos reports. Yu Nishimura and Kaori Tanaka allegedly used spyware to steal credentials from players of the Lineage II Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. The duo allegedly advertised a website that offered Lineage players [...]
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The world’s busiest web domain, .com, is now the most dangerous, according to McAfee’s fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. While .com was found to be the riskiest top-level domain, the most dangerous country domain is Vietnam (.vn). Japan’s .jp ranks as the safest country domain for the second year in a [...]
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In the wake of the Sept. 7 sea dispute involving a Chinese fishing boat that collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a disputed island chain, Japan suspects Chinese hackers last week cyber attacked its defense ministry and national police agency websites. The government is looking into the assaults after China’s largest known hacker group [...]
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Cyber scammers are taking advantage of anti-Japanese sentiments to lure visitors to sites posing as a Japanese government website purportedly under attack, according to Global Times. Posts have been discovered on Chinese social networking sites, claiming the site of the Japanese Ministry of Defense has been hacked, anti-virus company Rising announced yesterday. These posts were [...]
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An alleged virus writer in Japan has been arrested amid allegations he created and distributed a virus which looked to destroy data. Masato Nakatsuji, 27, is alleged to have created the squid-octopus (ika-tako) virus which searches for data files from file-sharing websites and destroys the files, replacing them with an octopus icon. The malware affects [...]
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