Forum - View topicNEWS: Japanese Government Posts Findings on Remote-Control 'Virus'
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Kougeru Posts: 1454 |
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| That standard advance is so simple to follow that I've never, and to this day still don't understand why people don't follow it. | |||
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Kruszer Space Cowboy Posts: 6250 Location: Duluth, MN |
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| Which reminds me, time to do a scan.... | |||
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unready Posts: 132 Location: Illinois, USA |
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People like free stuff. There's a reputable security organization that does a survey every year in unusual ways. One year they set up a booth outside a coffee shop and gave away coupons for free coffee if people told them their email password (username not required). The overwhelming majority of people asking about how to get the free coffee gave up a password (admittedly maybe not a real one). One year they scattered USB sticks on the ground outside banks. The sticks had a hidden auto-run program that would contact a home server, but do nothing else, to see if people had turned off auto-run and what computer they used. Lots of people who worked at banks picked them up and plugged them into their work computers, emphasis on "worked at banks" and "work computers." People like free stuff (or at least stuff that seems free). |
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| dormcat Encyclopedia Editor  Posts: 9253 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Am I the only one finding "chikan.zip" filename funny?  The same romanization / pronunciation stands for both "substitution" (置換) and "molester" (痴漢; anyone watching hentai should be quite familiar with this Japanese phrase). |
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yuna49 Posts: 978 |
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| What I find most remarkable about this story is how apparently clueless the Japanese authorities were in this case. Botnets have been a common and well-documented pox on the Internet for years now. Most spam that comes to my servers these days originates from compromised machines that have been corralled into botnets. Doesn't the Japanese government have a few well-informed technical consultants that could have told them about botnets? It sounds from the article like they think they have made some remarkable new discovery. | |||
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Kimiko_0 Posts: 1536 Location: Leiden, NL, EU |
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| Being cautious with clicking URLs is made rather more difficult in this age of t.co, bit.ly, goo.gl, ">[Please use direct URLs], etc. | |||
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| dormcat Encyclopedia Editor Posts: 9253 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Correct me if I were wrong, but IIRC the general Japanese population use the Internet in a very different way from the rest of developed countries. Cell phones and smartphones dominate the market, while desktops and laptops are seldom used outside schools or workplaces, unless you're a computer geek i.e. otaku. |
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| Hawkwing Posts: 153 Location: Sweden |
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I noticed this as well, didn't know that chikan meant substitution until now.  |
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| yuna49 Posts: 978 |
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I don't have any data, but I certainly see desktop computers used to connect to the Internet in anime shows like Welcome to the NHK!. Maybe they have all been outmoded by mobile devices nowadays. Surely offices and companies must use desktop computers. Small businesses are as likely to become corralled into botnets as consumers. A quick scan of my mail logs for the past few months shows over 2,000 denials against attempted spam from compromised machines in the .jp domain, especially ones in ad.jp and ocn.ne.jp which, I believe, are both academic networks. |
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scineram Posts: 267 Location: Budapest |
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No. I would have opened it for the flash eroge. |
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enurtsol Posts: 7800 |
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Somebody mentioned Laughing Man:
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Mohawk52 Posts: 6417 Location: England, UK |
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