SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Movie lovers can now comfortably pay for films at home with bitcoins, as CJ E&M has introduced a bitcoin payment service on its website Vingo (www.vingo.co.kr). The online portal offers up a huge quantity of video content, viewable on a myriad of gadget types including smartphones, televisions, tablets and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – AhnLab Inc., Korea’s major security software provider, has come up with a new, expanded scheme to encourage employees to make voluntary R&D suggestions called “iQ.” The focus of the latest revision is on raising the probability of commercial success of the suggested ideas. Up until now, the company has commercialized employee-suggested ideas from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently, smishing messages are rapidly on the rise, which warrants mobile phone users’ caution. According to AhnLab, the security software provider specializing in antivirus software, on November 13, more and more text messages masquerading as some messages requiring immediate attention such as garbage problem or neighborhood noise are luring people to [...]
Five of Korean Authentication Agencies will distribute a Hardware Security Module (HSM) to the public for free within this month that does not require people to save security module in their hard drive or a USB(Image:Wikipedia/Flicker) SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – Five of Korean Authentication Agencies will distribute a Hardware Security Module (HSM) to the public [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A large number of leading security companies in Asia will head to Korea in March 2015 to attend SECON 2015 (International Security Exhibition and Conference 2015: www.seconexpo.com), where global trends and technologies are presented. Participating companies are to exhibit existing and new security technologies from video security [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of global companies try to jump on the “Fintech” bandwagon. Fintech, a compound word between finance and technology, encompasses services such as mobile payment, mobile money transfer, crowd funding and the like. Investment volume on fintech skyrocketed by three-folds only in five years. According to management [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of smishing or SMS phishing has skyrocketed over the past three years, a whopping 210-fold increase during the period. In 2010, when a reported case of smishing first appeared, there was only one such case in the nation. In 2013, however, the number of the smartphone-based fraudulent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s “Fin-tech” industry seems to be a next big-thing in the national financial and mobile industry, simple and easy mobile payment solutions are being introduced in a row. And LG UPlus, South Korea’s No.3 wireless carrier, also jumps into the fray, betting conventional authentication systems using pin [...]
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SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently the so-called “fintech” has been in vogue. A compound word between finance and technology, fintech encompasses services such as mobile payment, mobile money transfer, crowd funding, and the like. The main reason the word fintech has become more familiar with us is services like KakaoPay by Kakao Inc. and [...]