Japan’s Henn na Hotel says it’s “modified” the bots so pervs can’t exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.
Tag Archives: Japan
Stalker found pop star by searching eyes’ reflections on Google Maps
A man confessed to stalking and attacking a young pop star by zooming in on the reflections in her eyes from selfies.
Unclosable browser popup! 13-year-old charged for sharing code
She didn’t create it, but she allegedly shared it. That’s enough to get in trouble in Japan, with its history of being tough on cyber crime.
Japanese government will try to hack its citizens’ IOT devices
Japan will hack citizens’ IoT devices to mop up cyber security before the Olympics. Don’t like the notion? Here’s how to lock ’em down!
Founder of collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox arrested, charged again
Mt. Gox infamously impoded with hundreds of thousands of bitcoins “missing.” Finding out what happened is an ongoing exercise…
Old-school landline phones to protect elderly from “it’s me” scammers
The new phones glow red when a call comes in from an unregistered number, to battle the “ore ore” (“it’s me, it’s me”) fraudsters who prey on Japanese elderly. 
Cat and mouse game is over for Japanese death threat hacker
A Japanese programmer, who taunted police by leaving clues in a memory card that he tucked into the collar of a cat found wandering an island off Tokyo, has been sentenced to 8 years in jail. 
Google ordered to forget ‘endangered’ man’s search results by Tokyo court
Takedown-rights fever has hit Tokyo, where a District Court on Thursday issued an injunction forcing Google to take down about 120 of 230 search results about a Japanese man that implicated him in past crimes because he felt his life was being endangered by the search results.
Japanese man arrested for possession of five guns created with 3D printer
Police say that two of the five recovered handguns are capable of firing, though no bullets were discovered at the man’s home in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.