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NEWS: Japanese Government Posts Findings on Remote-Control 'Virus'




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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:37 am Reply with quote
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



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:39 am Reply with quote
Which reminds me, time to do a scan....
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unready



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:54 am Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
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.

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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:10 am Reply with quote
Am I the only one finding "chikan.zip" filename funny? Laughing 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



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:18 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:49 am Reply with quote
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
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:24 am Reply with quote
yuna49 wrote:
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.

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



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:53 am Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
Am I the only one finding "chikan.zip" filename funny? Laughing 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).


I noticed this as well, didn't know that chikan meant substitution until now. Razz
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:53 am Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
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.


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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:45 pm Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
Am I the only one finding "chikan.zip" filename funny?


No. I would have opened it for the flash eroge.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:38 am Reply with quote
Somebody mentioned Laughing Man:

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:53 pm Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
Am I the only one finding "chikan.zip" filename funny? Laughing 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).
Yeah I caught that one too with a bit of a chortle, but as you highlighted the same word can have so many different meanings in Japanese. Laughing
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