SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — McDonald’s Korea was given a fine of 696 million won (US$532,110) on Wednesday after the personal data of 4.87 million customers was leaked to hackers due to the firm’s lax data management. The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out the fine to the Korean branch of the American fast [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading accommodation booking app Good Choice, better known as “Yeogiotte” in Korean, has been ordered by a court to pay up to 400,000 won (US$280) per person to 300 customers who suffered personal information leak, judicial officials said Friday. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Thursday that Good Choice [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting Friday, the government will introduce a new privacy protection measure allowing the people to write down encrypted private numbers instead of their phone numbers when they visit widely-used places, like restaurants and cafes. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced Thursday that it will introduce an encrypted private [...]
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The flurry among Australian businesses seeking to comply with new data-breach regulations has triggered a surge in demand for the masking component of a total data solution offered by market newcomer Delphix. This capability forms part of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP), which also accelerates app development [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Biwire) — Fewer than half of South Korean companies dedicated funds to data protection in 2017, a government report showed Monday. According to the report by the Ministry of Science and ICT, only 48.1 percent of 9,000 local companies assessed showed interest in monitoring and protecting corporate data. Only 2.2 percent [...]
MAHWAH, N.J., Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Radware® (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new study today titled Radware Research: Web Application Security in a Digitally Connected World. The report takes an in-depth look into how organizations protect their web applications, and identifies clear gaps in security among [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwie) — Google Inc. was ordered by a Seoul court Friday to disclose the list of personal information it has shared with third parties, including a U.S. intelligence agency. Six South Korean activists filed a lawsuit against the global tech giant in July 2014, demanding to know whether it shared their [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Another hacker suspected of orchestrating a cyberattack on a major South Korean securities firm has been indicted on charges of disrupting the company’s computer network, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said the 39-year-old man, identified only by his surname Lee, is suspected of launching a [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Elastica (www.elastica.net), the leader in Data Science Powered™ Cloud Application Security, today released its Q2 2015 Shadow Data Report, providing a data-science powered analysis of hundreds of millions of enterprise files stored and shared within leading enterprise cloud applications. Highlighted in the report (available here: http://www.elastica.net/q2-2015-shadow-data-report/) are [...]
BOSTON, June 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–When it comes to deciding how best to manage information, organizations on both sides of the Atlantic seem more comfortable following conventional risk-avoidance strategies than translating that information into insight and competitive advantage. That’s one of the key findings of the 2014 Information Maturity Risk Index, a new study published by [...]