97 Anonymous hacking cases in Japan since Sept

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Japanese police say the international hacking group Anonymous has attacked at least 97 websites in Japan since September. The National Police Agency says cyber attacks by Anonymous have intensified since September. The group has made online sites of companies and other institutions inaccessible by inundating them with huge volumes of traffic. This tactic is called…

PM Abe’s website under possible cyber attack

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official website has been inaccessible since early Thursday morning. A message posted on Twitter around 3:30 AM Thursday Japan time suggests that the international group of hackers who call themselves Anonymous carried out a cyber-attack on the website. They apparently used a tactic called a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS,…