Ball Aerospace to Help SKorea Develop, Test Air Quality Sensor; Cary Ludtke Comments
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has won a contract to help South Korea’s aeronautics and space agency design, manufacture and test an instrument to measure transboundary pollutants over the Korean Peninsula and Asia-Pacific region. Under the contract, Ball Aerospace and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute will co-develop the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer intended to provide [...]
Three South Korean television networks and two major banks were recently hacked prompting the country’s Army to raise its alert level, according to a Reuters article. An investigation into the attacks on TV networks YTN, MBC and KBS and the Shinhan and NongJyup banks is still underway. “We are now assessing the situation. This incident [...]
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South Korea’s communications regulator announced yesterday authorities and online security analysts are assessing the damage caused by what is being described as the largest data breach in the country’s history. SK Communications discovered earlier this week that malicious code was used to hack its sites, the Nate portal, the third most visited search engine and [...]
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North Korea is expanding its force of future cyber warriors, and is even sending young hacker prodigies abroad to enhance their skills, according to a representative from a group of North Korean defectors, Korea Joongang Daily reports. Kim Heung-kwang of the North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity said yesterday North Korea has upped its number of cyber [...]
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South Korea plans to ramp up cybersecurity within the government to counter cyber attacks from its northern neighbor, AFP reports. Forty-five officials at 23 government agencies will be tapped to lead computer security and emergency planning in an effort to protect against continuous web-based attacks, a home affairs ministry official told AFP. South Korean prosecutors [...]
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North Korean hackers were behind last month’s cyber attack that brought down the network of a South Korean bank, according to prosecutors in Seoul. Reuters reported the April 12 take down of South Korea’s agricultural banking cooperative Nonghyup’s computer system impacted millions of customers who could not use the bank’s credit cards and ATMs for [...]
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A hacker stole customer names and home addresses from a major South Korean financial lender then blackmailed the company to not release the information online, according to UPI. Hyundai Capital, an affiliate of South Korea’s top automaker, said critical financial information was not released. Investigators were unsure if the hacker obtained cellphone numbers and email [...]
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Forty websites belonging to the South Korean government, agencies and businesses came under attack yesterday, including those of the presidential Blue House, the U.S. forces, the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and unification, the intelligence agency, parliament and the tax office, AFP reported. Cybersecurity company AhnLab confirmed the websites [...]
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