SEOUL, Jun 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver’s data center ‘Gak’, which is located in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, has made it to a list of the top ten of the world’s best-looking data centers, joining the likes of Google and aql. British IT journal Data Center Dynamics has recently announced ten of the most beautiful data centers [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team has partnered with the National Police Agency to develop an artificial intelligence CCTV system. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced yesterday it has embarked on a project to develop a cloud-based smart video surveillance platform, which will see a number of the [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The recent news of the Samsung Galaxy S8’s iris scanner hack came as quite a shock to South Koreans, who have seen a growing number of commercial banks adopt the new biometric authentication method for their mobile banking services. According to reports, the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) fooled [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Industry experts say Microsoft’s much-maligned ActiveX software may be scrapped and replaced with advanced technology such as biometric recognition under the newly elected Moon administration, after being slammed over its security vulnerabilities and widely viewed as plaguing the South Korean web with exhausting and complex online identification processes for [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean formed a policy consultative body to actively deal with the global WannaCry ransomware attacks that have affected the country along with the rest of the world, the government said Tuesday. The body is made up of government officials, researchers from state-run tech institutes, including the Korea Internet [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – With the global financial losses from the WannaCry ransomware attack estimated at $4 billion, according to cyber risk analysis firm Cyence, another study by Mandiant, a FireEye company, has revealed that it typically takes more than three months for businesses to acknowledge that there has been a cyberattack. Based [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state-run cyber security agency said Thursday that 17 companies have been struck by “WannaCry” so far, but the spread of the ransomware has slowed. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) said it is keeping a watchful eye on the spread of the ransomware, although the situation [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven Eleven Signature opened today at Lotte World Tower, the world’s very first unmanned convenience store where shoppers can pay with the swipe of their hand, thanks to a biometric verification system that scans palm vein patterns. The vein-scanning self-checkout terminal studies the size, color, and shape of each shopper’s [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – News reports of IP camera hacking incidents emerged in April, with dozens of videos that appear to be from home security cameras found circulating around Chinese adult content websites. Although most of the videos appear to be of Chinese nationals, some included Korean women. And the footage revealed the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state-run cybersecurity agency said Tuesday 10 companies have been struck by the crippling ransomware “WannaCry” so far, which has been emerging as one of the biggest threats to global cybersecurity. Ransomware refers to malware that locks up files on a computer with encryption until the victims pay [...]