Japan weather group hit by cyberattack; information site down

Yes, many such cases. So much, that サイバー攻撃 is trending on X.

Usually these attacks occur as some sort of political protest or sabotage operation - but is there something Japan has done recently that would warrant this? Or do people want a cheap yen, or...?

(and no, attacks like these are not easily mitigated.)

Just to confirm ;Japan is cold-heaters needed…

Apologizing for something you have no control of .... a very silly thing to do.

I would have expected such an apology if any information was wrong or inaccurate, that will let people think DDoS attacks are something you should be held responsible for.

Apologizing for something you have no control of .... a very silly thing to do.

DDoS attacks just as ransomware can easily be prevented by having modern IT infrastructure which Japan Inc refused to pay competitive wages to accomplish. They have full control of why this situation happened

DDoS attacks just as ransomware can easily

seriously?

Tomorrow your company is going to be flooded by requests coming from thousands of actors around the world trying to disrupt your services.

How could you prevent that? I'm curious

It's true you can prevent ransomware attacks with proper IT infrastructure and security policies, DDos is a very different thing