SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing interest in cryptocurrency, security experts have warned that North Korean hackers could target bitcoin exchanges next year. During a press conference held on Friday, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) revealed a report predicting seven cyberattacks would likely come next year, with cryptocurrency exchanges as the likely [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Collaboration between two quasi-government agencies is set to change the way drivers in South Korea are reminded to book an appointment for regular car maintenance. The Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to use mobile messaging [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean formed a policy consultative body to actively deal with the global WannaCry ransomware attacks that have affected the country along with the rest of the world, the government said Tuesday. The body is made up of government officials, researchers from state-run tech institutes, including the Korea Internet [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The location-based services (LBS) market in South Korea is growing at a rapid clip as industry forecasts predict a 70 percent increase in market growth this year. According to an industry report on the LBS market recently published by the Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA), demand has been growing for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Government is set to launch a 1.4 billion won (US$ 1.3 million) project to delete Korean citizens’ exposed personal information, said the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on January 14. The project’s goal is to find cases of illegally collected or mishandled personal information among domestic and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus said on December 22 that it has developed Korea’s first system to block spam text messages with commercial images. The system will be linked to the Korea Internet & Security Agency’s spam blocking server that stores 130,000 spam images. An image-based spam is a kind of spam [...]
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[Related Article] Watch Out Malware Attacks during Weekends (Korea Bizwire, April 7) The first thing you should do in the Monday morning should be scanning your computer as most “malware” attacks occur during weekends. According to the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency, most malicious software dispersions happened during a time interval between Friday evening and Sunday night, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The first thing you should do in the Monday morning should be scanning your computer as most “malware” attacks occur during weekends. According to the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency, most malicious software dispersions happened during a time interval between Friday evening and Sunday night, based on the examination [...]