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South Korean Gov’t Steps Away from Online Personal Identification Security

South Korean Gov’t Steps Away from Online Personal Identification Security

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on January 24 that before the end of the year it would downgrade the importance of the public key certificate, a widely used personal identification tool in South Korea, by essentially removing the word “public” and turning it into a security system [...]

South Korean Banks Adopt Simple Identity Verification System for Online Banking After Criticism

South Korean Banks Adopt Simple Identity Verification System for Online Banking After Criticism

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of South Korean banks are doing away with the country’s official identity verification process, which has long been criticized as ‘too complicated’ and ‘exhausting’, while being encouraged by financial authorities to do away with the excessive use of ActiveX, a software framework often slammed as ‘headache-inducing’. [...]

Notorious ‘ActiveX’ on its Last Legs in South Korea

Notorious ‘ActiveX’ on its Last Legs in South Korea

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 [...]