SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Thursday it had developed a new technology to prevent the hacking of intelligent CCTV systems in collaboration with Internet of Things (IoT) security specialist ICTK Holdings. Intelligent CCTV refers to an artificial intelligence (AI) service that analyzes video images [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that a recent cyberattack by a hacking group on its system did not cause major harm to its business and customers. In a statement posted on the company’s internal forum, Samsung said no personal information of its customers and employees was stolen and there [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, apologized Monday for the inconvenience caused by disruptions of its services that affected customers across the country. KT’s services, including the internet, payment and phone call services, were disrupted beginning at around 11 a.m. KT appeared to have recovered most of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A hacker group believed to be linked to North Korea has attempted to steal data from South Korean experts working as members of an advisory panel for the defense ministry, a cybersecurity firm said Sunday. Emails were sent to some members of the advisory panel earlier this month from [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run nuclear research institute’s computer network was breached by a North Korean cyber attack last month, an opposition lawmaker claimed Friday. According to Rep. Ha Tae-keung of the main opposition People Power Party, 13 external Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were found to have breached the internal network [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top wire and cable maker LS Cable & System announced on Tuesday that it is ready to mass-produce a newly-developed optical cable that is designed prevent hacking. The company developed the hack-proof optical cable using special fiber optics with enhanced coatings. The company noted that the brand-new [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s military intelligence unit was found to have been behind cyber attacks against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea’s alpine town of PyeongChang, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The Justice Department, together with the FBI, charged six officers of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of attempts to hack South Korea via China posted a ten-fold increase over the past three years, data showed Saturday. According to the data provided by the military to the National Assembly, hacking attempts via China targeting South Korean military networks totaled 10,655 cases in 2019, compared [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cybercrimes reported to police jumped 20.7 percent from the previous year to more than 180,000 cases in 2019, data showed Monday. Cybercrimes reported to police totaled 180,499 cases in 2019, compared with 149,604 in 2018, according to an annual report compiled by the National Police Agency. [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to spread uncoontrollably, there have been a number of requests from countries all over the world for export of South Korean coronavirus test kits. At the height of soaring demand for Korean test kits, it has been confirmed that there has been a recent [...]