Tag: SOUTH KOREA

About 40 governmental websites in South Korea were hit by cyber-attacks this morning, forcing the country to issue a nationwide alert. According to AhnLab, a South Korean anti-virus software manufacturer, the sites fell prey to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at around 10:00 a.m., local time, and more attacks could be on the way. Websites run by the presidential office, South ...

Forget nuclear warheads and long-range missiles. The most potent weapon in North Korea's arsenal might just be its fax machine. On December 8th, Pyongyang began distributing propagandistic faxes to South Korean companies, blaming the South for the November 23rd attack on Yeonpyeong Island. "Responsibility for the attack lies with the South," the fax reads. "Groups in the South should rise up ...

The U.S. may not be the superpower it once was, but, when it comes to botnets, at least, we're still number one. According to Microsoft's newly released ninth Security Intelligence Report, more than 2.2 million computers in the U.S. fell prey to botnets in the first six months of 2010, substantially more than second-ranked Brazil, home to 550,000 infected computers. South Korea, however, has the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... North Korea, which seems to have finally bought into that whole World Wide Web fad, apparently just created a Facebook page to go along with its new YouTube and Twitter accounts. [From: Yahoo! News] HP exec Todd Bradley reportedly confirmed the expected arrival date of the company's webOS tablet, when he announced during a ...

Already under fire from privacy advocates and politicians in the U.S., Google is now facing a probe from the South Korean government, amid speculation that the company may have illegally collected private information from Korean users. As Reuters reports, police raided Google Korea's Seoul offices yesterday, as part of an ongoing investigation into the company's Street View service. After more ...

While the West's tiff with the Reds might have cooled in recent years, such is not the case in Asia, where South Korea and North Korea eye one another with suspicion and animosity. So, leave it to South Korea, which clearly has the whole technology thing figured out, to deploy robot soldiers along its northern border. Based on the testimonies of unidentified South Korean military officials, ...

In South Korea, marathon late-night gaming sessions may soon become a thing of the past. According to The Korean Herald, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has enforced a video game curfew for teenagers. It's an effort to curb game addiction in a country where, according to Huffington Post, a recent survey of over 1,500 public school students found that about 29-percent showed signs of ...

It's no longer news that the U.S. has slower and more expensive Internet connections than most of the world. Being the place where the Web was invented makes that quite sad, of course, but there are legitimate reasons why a country like South Korea (which has the fastest speeds on average) is beating us in the broadband race. For one, most countries have much more competition in the broadband ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 'Avatar' may have been the most hyped 3-D movie of all time, but the visual experience for moviegoers in the United States actually paled in comparison to the interactive ride South Koreans can enjoy. The nation has established several 4-D theatres which provide "moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights, and ...

If you've been following some of the more banal Internet goings on over the past few months, you've probably heard about the Demi Moore W Magazine Photoshop fiasco. To refresh your memory, Moore appeared on the cover of the December issue with what appeared to be a chunk of her hip entirely missing from the photo. Many assumed it was an attempt to slenderize the actress. Boing Boing published ...

Don't expect Tiger Woods to practice this way, but for many South Koreans, hitting the virtual greens is much more practical than playing the real sport. According to a report from CNN, many of the country's 3.5 million golfers opt to play golf simulators instead of the 260 golf courses, which tend to be prohibitively expensive and crowded. In contrast, a round of virtual golf costs somewhere ...

While Kim Jong-il continues to lead North Korea like a hyperactive preschooler whose parents can't find his Ritalin, South Korea is knocking off designer handbags, churning out electronics like nobody's business, and now, according to USA Today, using cloned, drug-sniffing dogs to patrol its airports. Unlike the U.S. (where German Shepherds get to sniff all the drugs), South Korea has put six ...

South Korean telecom firm KTF has just announced a cleaning robot which can be controlled by a 3G cellphone. The robot -- called the CW100 -- was built in collaboration with Microbot, and is a "smart" vacuum (much like a Roomba). The CW100 uses an onboard video camera to send live images of what it's "seeing" to the mobile phone, and the user can then remotely control it using the keypad. The ...

Everybody loves robots. Especially cute types like the wiry, metallic guy above. And even as it prepares for the robot uprising, South Korea can't help but embrace our machine-like friends. Rumor has it that South Korea is preparing to build 'Robot Land,' a $500 million industrial park dedicated to robotics. The complex will house manufacturing facilities, research centers, and exhibition ...

Even with Arnold Schwarzenegger in charge of California, we humans need to smarten up if we're to avoid the doomsday future foretold in movies like 'The Terminator' or 'The Matrix.' With robots on the verge of being able to think and feel on their own (like good ol' Johnny Five from 'Short Circuit'), and humans increasingly getting replaced on the job by robots, a no holds barred battle between ...