Japan-US security talks likely to highlight Tokyo's cyberdefense woes

TOKYO: Top US security officials meet their Japanese counterparts on Thursday as concerns are growing that the hosts cannot protect themselves from malicious Internet hackers. 

Cybersecurity is on the agenda when the military and diplomatic chiefs of the two countries hold their first joint meeting in Japan. But even Japanese officials acknowledge they cannot keep up with the proliferating threat of attacks on computer networks from private or state-sponsored hackers.