A virus for cyberdefense? Japan has something cooking
For several years, Japan has been developing a computer virus that can track, identify, and disable cyberthreats, according to a story in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.
Fujitsu reportedly is working on the cyberweapon
for Japan's Defense Ministry under a 178.5 million yen ($2.32 million)
project initiated in fiscal 2008 by the ministry's Technical Research
and Development Institute.
Americans more susceptible to online scams than believed, study finds
(Credit:
The Ponemon Institute/PC Tools)
Last May, long before the
iPhone 4S was released, a bunch of Facebook users got tricked into spreading spam by clicking on a link attached to this headline: "First
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