SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On May 6, Naver, Korea’s largest search portal, signed a MoU with the National Police Agency Cyber Bureau in a bid to prevent cybercrimes. Within the first quarter of the year, Naver will provide a search widget that netizens can use to verify whether a phone number or account number [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s police agency is planning to develop state-of-the-art patrol vehicles equipped with advanced technology including e-maps, PCs linked to law enforcement databases, and multi-function cameras with infrared sensors to detect objects at night. On March 11, the National Police Agency announced that it would develop “cutting-edge” patrol cars by [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the massive leak of personal information from credit card companies and mobile telecom service providers recently, the cases of voice phishing originating from overseas are also on the rise. For two months in January and February this year alone, the number of phone calls blocked for [...]