As for the leak of its customer information including credit-card number, Alico (American life insurance company) Japan announced Monday that the number of queries about suspected credit card fraud increased to 2,850 as of July 31.
Alico has not confirmed how much monetary damage its customers had suffered or the cause of the leak.
Thu August 06, 2009
Alico Japan's customer information leaked out (2)
Sat July 25, 2009
Alico Japan's customer information leaked out (1)
Alico (American life insurance company) Japan announced Thursday that it is possible that some of its customer information has leaked out.
Up to 110 thousand pieces of the information were possibly leaked, said Alico Japan.
Sun July 05, 2009
One-click fraud is exploding
Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), an independent administrative institution, announced on July 3 how many reports on Internet security threat it received in June.
According to the announcement, the number of reports on one-click fraud rose to 694, which reached a record-high.
Fri June 12, 2009
Yahoo! Japan phishing email is proliferating
The Council of Anti-Phishing Japan announced on June 8 that it has confirmed a new phishing fraud committed by those who pretend to be Yahoo! Japan.
The pretenders try to lead Yahoo! Japan's members to a fake website by sending them an email and make them enter their personal information including credit-card number on the website.
Sun June 07, 2009
Email addresses of Daiei's members were universally viewable
The Daiei, Inc., one of Japan's major supermarkets said on June 5 that the email addresses of its Internet selling site members had been exposed to the outside for about three months since March this year.
Daiei added that the email addresses are not viewable from outside now and it had not had a report on any abuse of them.
Daiei's executives excuse their blunder by classifying the exposure into the “unexpected.”
Can Daiei survive?
Wed May 20, 2009
GPS-enabled cellphone prevents pandemic? (4)--Life log is controversial
The MIC's experiment on prevention of pandemic by using GPS-enabled cellphone will rely on the life logs captured by the GPS system.
However, do you have any inhibitions in being tracked by the system like this?
The life log is definitely a concern of privacy, so the MIC is going to examine the inhibitions of the GPS-enabled cellphone users tracked in the experiment.
Tue May 19, 2009
GPS-enabled cellphone prevents pandemic? (3)--Leveraging life log
In the experiment, due to start this fall under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), the communications service providers such as mobile operators will invite some 2,000 monitors from the GPS-enabled mobile phone users.
The providers will store in their data bases the history of how all the monitors move around.
Then, one of the monitors will be assumed to acquire an infection.
And the providers will scrutinize the history of the monitors' move-around, pick up the ones who are considered to have had a close contact with the pseudo infected monitor in a bus, train, or other congested public places, and send an email message that informs them of the possibility of infection.
