THELOGICALINDIAN - A Japanese extra and accompanist has helped the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Administration accession acquaintance on cybersecurity issues including cryptocurrencies She reportedly took on the role of a cybersecurity administrator in an accident hosted by the administration area participants abstruse about cybercrime countermeasures
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Rie Kitahara Raises Cybersecurity Awareness
Japanese extra and accompanist Rie Kitahara, aforetime associated with the idol babe accumulation Ngt48 and above affiliate of Akb48 and Ske48, has helped the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department accession acquaintance of cybersecurity issues, including those accompanying to bitcoin and added cryptocurrencies, according to bounded media.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Shinjuku Ward, hosted an accident on August 26, area Kitahara approved to brainwash participants about measures adjoin cybercrime. She affected the role of the department’s cybersecurity admeasurement administrator for the day.
Approximately 1,700 guests, parents and their accouchement attended. They abstruse about email phishing and affected websites that try to abduct claimed advice and how to assure themselves from these aegis threats. Asahi TV described:
Japanese Phishing Emails on the Rise
In January, crypto barter Coincheck was afraid and 58 billion yen (~US$522 million) account of the cryptocurrency NEM was stolen. It was after appear that the drudge may have resulted from emails beatific to the exchange’s advisers to advance viruses.
In July, news.Bitcoin.com reported that the cardinal of cases involving phishing emails in the Japanese accent rose to at atomic 1,500 aftermost fall.
The Board of Anti-Phishing Japan has issued warnings apropos cryptocurrency phishing several times. “We are alive to accession acquaintance of the accessible not to anon bang the URLs adumbrated in the email,” Kaori Uemura, a backer for the council, told news.Bitcoin.com. She added that recipients should ability out to a accepted acquaintance at the crypto barter allegedly beatific the email to verify its authenticity.
Cooperating with Crypto Exchanges
In adjustment to action crypto-related cybercrime, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has been cooperating with ten of the country’s better crypto exchanges. They are SBI Virtual Currencies, Bitflyer, Bitpoint Japan, GMO Coin, Bittrade, Quoine, Bitbank, Btc Box, Money Partners and Coincheck.
According to App Times, the exchanges accept agreed to “mutual cooperation, cybercrime advertisement notification, bent analysis cooperation, advice sharing, [and] measures to anticipate boundless damage.”
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