Tokyo’s Cyber Emergency Centre at the vanguard of hacking defence
Across one wall of a Thunderbirds-style command centre a huge map of the world keeps a running log of global cyber-attacks. Bloodcurdling names dart across the screen as thousands of computers are attacked in Houston or Hiroshima or Hampstead. This is Tokyo’s Cyber Emergency Centre.
Itsuro Nishimoto gives an order to one of his staff, who hacks a nearby laptop. In less than a minute he can observe the person working at that computer using the laptop’s webcam. The operating light has been disabled; the user has no idea he can be seen.
“The cyber-attacker will tend to watch and wait until the user goes to the bathroom or to get a cup of coffee,” says Mr Nishimoto, “then the real assault begins. People talk about cyberwar as if it hasn’t already begun. It has. It has all the characters of real wars: attackers, defenders, innocent victims, fearsome weapons. Even mercenaries.”
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