http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/cyberattacks-suspected-on-defense-ministry-police-agency-websites Japan Today 19th September 2010 TOKYO -- The Defense Ministry and the National Police Agency possibly came under cyberattacks between Wednesday and Friday as it temporarily became difficult for people to access their websites, government officials said. The government is looking into the attacks given that a hackers’ group viewed as the largest in China has said it will attack Japanese government websites through Saturday in protest over Tokyo’s handling of the collisions last week between a Chinese fishing boat and Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near disputed East China Sea islands. The method of attack is believed to be the so-called distributed denial of service attacks in which hackers send massive data to a target website and make it unable to respond or function promptly, the official said. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry have called on municipal governments and public universities across Japan to increase surveillance of their websites and check their responses in case hackers launch an attack on their sites. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Sun Sep 19 2010 - 22:45:42 PDT
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