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Cybersecurity, privacy, and the fight to stay safe online.
The Information-technology Promotion Agency issued an emergency bulletin Tuesday urging immediate patches for FortiGate SSL VPN flaws after Hyogo prefectural offices reported unauthorized access traced to an unpatched edge device.
The Japan Fintech Association warned merchants and shoppers about PayPay QR overlay scams at festival stalls during the Sports Day long weekend, describing cases where criminals paste fake payment codes over legitimate ones to redirect transfers.
Police say reissuing licenses will not stop misuse of stolen data after Times Car lost facial images and license records for about 1.6 million customers; the National Police Agency is urging banks to tighten identity checks.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police said cybercrime units seized infrastructure hosting 890 cloned National Tax Agency login pages, warning Sports Day travelers not to tap SMS links that demand My Number credentials.
Rakuten Mobile patched an orchestration API flaw that JPCERT/CC flagged in a coordinated disclosure, closing a path that could have let authenticated partners reassign subscriber profiles without secondary approval.
Four people were hurt, none seriously, when a diplomatic-plate car leaving Japan’s Foreign Ministry collided with a civilian vehicle on Sakurada-dori in Kasumigaseki on Thursday evening.
