SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When selecting digital health applications, Korean users—including doctors, chronic disease patients, and the general public—prioritize cybersecurity and personal data protection over therapeutic effectiveness, according to a new study released by Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital. The research, led by Professor Shin Jae-yong of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Yonsei [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean security and technology experts are raising alarms over Google’s renewed request to export high-resolution digital maps of the country, warning that approval could pose grave national security and economic risks in an era of increasingly drone-based warfare and geopolitical uncertainty. During a policy forum held at the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading South Korean companies and institutions are increasingly restricting the use of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence model, amid concerns over its excessive data collection practices. Kakao, which recently announced an official partnership with OpenAI, became the first major South Korean IT company to prohibit DeepSeek’s use for internal operations, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver has introduced Passkey Login, a new authentication method that allows users to log into their accounts using facial recognition or fingerprints instead of passwords. The move is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to enhance privacy and security. According to industry sources, Naver recently launched the passkey system to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent incident involving South Korean soldiers sharing classified military passwords with civilian moneylenders has raised serious concerns about security breaches within the nation’s armed forces. According to military authorities on September 22, these classified passwords, known as “challenge and response” codes, are designated as Level 3 secrets under the [...]
New York, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — CertiK, a leader in Web3 security and CrossAngle, the Web3 data intelligence provider behind the Xangle platform today announced a landmark strategic partnership to raise the standards of security and transparency across the Web3 ecosystem. Through this partnership, CrossAngle will feature CertiK research reports on the Xangle platform, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The top diplomats of South Korea and Russia held consultations to discuss regional security on the Korean Peninsula and other pending bilateral issues, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. Foreign Minister Park Jin and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) meeting [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The following is an open letter from Cobwebs Technologies – a global leader in Web Intelligence. Today, the array of threats posed to disrupt businesses only intensifies, while the systems and methods organizations use to assess the potential for trouble often fail to keep pace. The result is incomplete [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — One of Huawei Technologies Co.’s foreign branch websites has been used as a malware platform, raising concerns over Chinese tech titan’s security management. An individual referred to only as Chae, a South Korean netizen, recently discovered that an unknown IP had attempted FTP access to his Network Attached Storage, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the pattern of everyday life shifting from face-to-face interactions to remote and non-face-to-face ones due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber threats are becoming more prevalent today than ever before. In particular, ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts a victim’s files and then demands a [...]