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Japan seeking US assistance to obtain counter cyberattack capability [Asian News International]
[December 23, 2013]

Japan seeking US assistance to obtain counter cyberattack capability [Asian News International]


(Asian News International Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Tokyo, Dec. 23 (ANI): Japan is reportedly seeking to curb the increased cyberattacks on the nation's government systems and in a bid to have the ability to counter the attacks by a foreign nation, it is mulling over plans to cooperate with the US that has the most sophisticated counterattack technology.



A source said that the ability would include being able to attack a server in self-defense if government computer systems were attacked.

According to the Japan Times, the Japanese government plans to set up a 'cyberdefense task force' within the Self-Defense Forces next March and the defense ministry along with other government agencies have begun compiling concrete measures to wage a counterattack.


The source said that the Japanese officials are considering waging distributed denial-of-service attacks that send huge amounts of data to offending servers.

A senior official has pointed that US cooperation is indispensable for such a task because identifying the source of cyberattack requires very sophisticated computer technology.

However, as counterattacks can also violate a Japanese law banning unauthorized access to servers and computers, the government is also planning to scrutinize the legal problems that might arise in obtaining counterattack capability, the report added. (ANI) (c) 2013 aninews.in All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company

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