The Government of Japan Develops Computer Virus

Japan is developing a virus that is able to trace the source of cyber attacks, and then neutralizing the program. In addition, the virus is also equipped with devices to monitor and analyze the attack.

Quoted by the daily Yomiuri Shimbun, the weapon is a form of a three-year investment projects whose value totaled 179 million yen (Rp21 billion) of government entrusted to the company's technology, Fujitsu Ltd..

Japan is not the first country to officially create cyber weapons. Prior to this, the United States and China are reported to have used a similar weapon in the practice of state security.

Even so, the country was forced to make special rules relating to use of cyber weapons because the move would violate the laws in force in Japan that prohibits the manufacture of computer viruses.

The Japanese government itself was already annoyed. Last November, the computer system run by about 200 local governments in Japan have an attack.

A month earlier, the country's parliament that gets cyber attacks. The attack seems to originate from the same email, nothing to do with server from China who had been hit a number of government computer.

A number of Japanese government-owned computers at various embassies and consulates in nine countries also experienced a virus attack in the middle of last year.

Currently, the virus made ​​the Japanese official testing center in the 'closed environment' to figure out how best to use it.