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History
A history of advancing coordination
In November 1988, an American graduate student created a program that infected numerous hosts on the Internet.
Computers of universities and research institutions around the world were affected.
This was the world's first Internet worm incident.
In 1992, in the early days of the Internet, it all began with a mailing list.
"Before another major incident takes place, we need to have a contact point for receiving information from overseas and for coordination." So in 1992, an organization that later became JPCERT/CC set up a contact point and started operation. In 1996, JPCERT/CC started providing information related to cyber incidents. In 1998, we became the first Japanese CSIRT to join the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), an international forum of CSIRTs. We advocated the need for a CSIRT within Japanese companies and organizations, and started providing support for its establishment.
In 2000, websites of the central government were hacked, and many new threats emerged.
The incident in which the web pages of central government ministries and agencies were hacked and defaced shocked the public and alerted people to the importance of security. At the end of February 2000, the Government established the IT Security Office under the Cabinet Secretariat, which later became the National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity. Around this time, new threats such as the Code Red worm and Nimda virus inflicted major damage. This was followed by the advent of botnets, and financially motivated phishing scams began. Under these circumstances, JPCERT/CC started Internet threat monitoring, fact-finding surveys of botnets, and handling of phishing scam reports. In 2004, JPCERT/CC was designated as a coordinating body for vulnerability information in a public notice issued by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and further expanded its range of activities.
| 1992 | Started handling computer security incident reports |
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| 1996 | Launched the Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) |
| 1998 | Joined FIRST, an international forum of CSIRTs |
| 2002 | Hosted the Asia Pacific Security Incident Response Coordination Conference (APSIRC) forum |
| 2003 | Launched the Internet threat monitoring system |
| 2004 | Started providing vulnerability-related information |
| 2005 | Started early warning services |
| 2006 | Started Bot Program Analysis Group activities in connection with the bot countermeasure project jointly funded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2007 | Jointly established the Nippon CSIRT Association (NCA) |
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