Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol “Securina”

Securina is an another virtual idol unit by puppets newly appeared into Japanese otaku scene, as a part of “Check PC” campaign backed by METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. Shina, from Tokyo, who is unfussy and easygoing, likes Parfait. and Sena from Osaka, assertive and boyish, likes drive. The “Check PC”… Continue reading Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol “Securina”

Anti-virus vendor Trendmicro website got hacked

Trendmicro Japan announced that some of their website pages are found to be modified from March 9th to 12th. Those hacked pages had a virus by which visitors could have got on their PC. Their infected page list contains both Japanese and English pages about some virus information, but we could not find the counterpart… Continue reading Anti-virus vendor Trendmicro website got hacked

Overture Japan leaked massive customers information

via Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported that Overture Japan, online-advertising subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, spilled its 28,157 customers information including address, phone number, e-mail address, etc. via P2P file sharing software Winny during March to August, 2007. Although Yahoo! Japan had found this issue on its other research before and notified to Overture Japan,… Continue reading Overture Japan leaked massive customers information