2020年经济学人 网络安全(1)

（单词翻译）

Business

商业版块

Cyber-security

网络安全

The other virus threat

另一种病毒威胁

Japan Inc’s IT needs a security patch

日本公司的信息技术需要安全补丁

Japan has a reputation for technophilia. Robots have even been enlisted¹ to cheer players at professional baseball games while covid-19 keeps fans away from stadiums. Yet when it comes to more humdrum² information technology (IT), the country lags behind other advanced economies— nowhere more so than in cyber-security. Nearly 14m people were still using Windows 7 when Microsoft stopped providing security patches in January, including 7.5m at work.This, the American software giant warned, could make Japan “susceptible to cyber-attacks”.

日本在技术上享有盛名。新冠肺炎疫情期间，球迷们要远离体育场，而机器人们则被征召到职业棒球比赛中为球员加油。然而在信息技术（IT）方面，日本落后于其他发达经济体，在网络安全方面更是如此。日本有近1400万人仍在使用Windows 7，其中包括750万人使用这个系统进行办公，尽管今年1月，微软停止了提供安全补丁，这家美国软件巨头提醒道，这样的情况可能使日本“易受网络攻击”。

In January Mitsubishi Electric and NEC, two electronics giants, admitted to data breaches³. Last month a virus infiltrated⁵ Honda’s internal servers and disrupted the carmaker’s factories in several countries. With more employees teleworking on unsecured devices and networks during the pandemic, cyber-security experts have noticed a spike⁶ in cyber-attacks since March.

今年1月，两大电子巨头三菱电机和日本电气公司承认数据泄露。上个月，一种病毒入侵了本田的内部服务器，扰乱了本田在几个国家的工厂。在疫情期间，越来越多的员工在不安全的设备和网络上进行远程办公，网络安全专家注意到，自3月份以来，网络攻击激增。

Businesses everywhere contend with cyber-criminals. On July 15th scammers hacked⁷ the Twitter accounts of public figures including Joe Biden and Elon Musk⁸. Many big Japanese firms, including Mitsubishi, NEC and Honda, are bolstering⁹ their defences. But many small and medium- sized ones, which make up 99% of Japanese companies, have little or no security systems in place. Hackers¹⁰ can use such weak links in the supply chain to infiltrate⁴ larger corporate¹¹ targets.

世界各地的企业都在与网络犯罪作斗争。7月15日，黑客们入侵了乔·拜登和埃隆·马斯克等公众人物的推特账户。包括三菱、日本电气公司、本田在内的许多日本大型公司正在加强防御。但是在日本，99%的企业是中小型企业，其中有许多企业几乎没有安全系统。黑客们可以利用供应链中的这些薄弱环节入侵到大型企业目标。