Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Japan Times: From Oct. 1, a new tax regulation decades in the making will go into effect — and hundreds of thousands of workers in Japan are angry. The Qualified Invoicing System, which requires taxable bus… Continue reading Freelancers Aren’t Happy With Japan’s New Invoice System
It was second time lucky for Japan as it successfully launched its first lunar lander on September 6 at 23:42 GMT atop a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center 25 miles (40 km) south of Kyushu.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Successful liftoff for Japan’s first lunar landing mission
The BBC has an article about Japan’s release into the sea of treated waste water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. “Scientists largely agree that the impact will be negligible, but China has strongly protested the release. And disinformation ha… Continue reading China Accused of ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign’ About Fukushima Waste Water in Multiple Countries
By Habiba Rashid
Dubbed MalDoc in PDF attack by researchers, the new attack trend utilizes PDF and Word files to spread malware.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within P… Continue reading MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within PDFs
Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), the agency responsible for the nation’s defences against cyber attacks, has itself been hacked.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Japan’s cybersecurity agency admits it was hacked for months
Reuters reports:
Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday, days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactor… Continue reading Japan Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Limits Near Fukushima
Japan is to begin releasing wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Thursday, in defiance of opposition from fishing communities, China and some scientists. From a report: The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said on Tuesda… Continue reading Wastewater From Ruined Fukushima Nuclear Plant To Be Released From Thursday, Japan Says
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…
“Scientists in Japan may be at the start of a truly monumental accomplishment: a vaccine that can slow or delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease,” reports Gizmodo:
In preliminary research released this week, the vaccine appeared to reduce inflam… Continue reading Scientists in Japan Develop Experimental Alzheimer’s Vaccine Showing Promise in Mice
In the 21st century, the global transportation landscape is in shift. Politicians, engineers, and planners all want to move more people, more quickly, more cleanly. Amid the frenzy of innovative …read more Continue reading The State of High Speed Rail, and A Look To Tomorrow