SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics will supply the 2014 edition of 3,000 Galaxy Note 10.1 devices preinstalled with the “Knox” mobile security platform to the Credit Finance Association of Korea. This is the first instance in which Samsung introduces Knox in Korea’s financial service industry. Knox is essential to the association’s security requirements as [...]
Singapore, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — AccessData, the leader in incident resolution solutions, and Gigaom Research, recently released a report on the growing complexities of mobile security and the limitations of “preventive, policy-driven” solutions that are not designed to detect and respond to mobile security incidents that bypass defenses. The report “Mobile security and incident [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Kaspersky Lab, a Russia-based developer of secure content and threat management systems and the world’s largest privately held vendor of software security products, said on July 14 that it has published the “2014 IT Security Risks Summary Report” focusing on the world’s very small businesses and their perception [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to give parents with small children the peace of mind, SK Telecom has introduced a new wearable phone “T Kids Phone JooN” with accompanying rate plans. The largest mobile telecom operator in Korea said on July 7 that it would hold a promotional event on the 8th for housewife [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom has launched a close-circuit TV security service using LTE wireless network for farmers, fish farm operators, and country home dwellers. The company said on July 1 that it has made available a “Point Cam LTE” close-circuit TV security solution that combines a close-circuit TV with an LTE data amplifier. [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The regulation on “firm banking,” the banking method used to pay for mobile phone bills, insurance premiums, or newspaper subscription fees, will be strengthened. This is made possible by an agreement from the user through the Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute that takes certain amounts of funds from the user’s [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — AhnLab, Inc. (www.ahnlab.com), a leading provider of information security products and services for enterprise, military and government organizations, and Synetcom Philippines, Inc., AhnLab’s strategic business partner, introduced AhnLab MDS, multi-layered security solutions against today’s advanced security threats at the CommunicAsia 2014 (Booth Number BB5-08, Basement Level), held [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. June 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Today McAfee, part of Intel Security, and LG Electronics announced that the new LG G3 will come pre-installed with a version of McAfee Mobile Security that includes a new anti-theft feature designed to protect users from unauthorized factory resets. The Kill Switch provides users the ability to disable [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger KakaoTalk will start its own mobile wallet service by which the users can make wire transfers and transactions in the second half of 2014. On May 29, according to financial industry sources, Kakao Inc. will start servicing “Bank Wallet Kakao” which is an electronic [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A software protection solution was put on sale in brick-and-mortar stores as a form of gift card, which caught many of tech shopper’s eyes. AhnLab, Korea’s leading computer security company, announced that they have begun to sell gift cards for “Personal PC Doctor,” the remote computer/smartphone management service, at [...]