NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo, a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo starts providing “Useful Tweets” on its search result page.

The useful tweets showed on the search are selected by Goo’s original language analysis and scoring technology. The tweets are not necessarily the latest but buzzed and/or trusted, according to the release.

via Tsuuhan Tsuushin

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Jpaan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) on January 20 released [J] that they are running an experiment to distribute files which name look like pirated TV drama videos from January 23 to 29.

The fake drama videos will be distributed at least on two popular Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing tools/networks, Winny and Share.

The contents of the drama-named file [J, pdf], if you download and open, to show caution that both upload and download pirated files are illegal.

# Download was illegalized since 2010 in Japan

The experiment traces if those people who see the caution will be enlightened and stop file sharing on Winny/Share.

The caution text is with signatures by following organizations;

- The Association of Copyright for Computer Software(ACCS)
- Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC)
- Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association, Inc.(JIMCA)
- Recording Industry Association of Japan(RIAJ)
- The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan(NAB)

[Update] NHK reported this [J] on the evening news nationwide. NHK told that the total number of Winny and Share users is about 150,000 per day. Japanese torrent users are 240,000 on the peak day.

via Internet Watch [J]

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Japan’s National Information Security Center reported on January 19 that the results of its security drill with 60,000 staff in 12 government organizations around malicious mail attachment [J, pdf].

According to the report, from October to December 2011, the center held security training to the 60,000 staff, then sent two mails which you could not identify the sender information. The first one was with a mocked attachment file, and the second one was with a link, both were to open the server which record which staff ran the attached application and click the link.

About 6,000 people, 10.1% opened the first attachment, and 3.1% opened the link.

via TV-Asahi [J]

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