South Korea

Three quarters of South Korea popped in online gaming raids

Records used to plunder game items, sold off to low lifes

Security26 Aug 2014 | 7

NORKS hacker corps reaches 5,900 sworn cyber soldiers - report

Hermit Kingdom doubles infosec headcount for strikes on Seoul strikes from China

Legal07 Jul 2014 | 8

Portable toilet mistaken for killer Nork drone

File under 'heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula'

Bootnotes15 May 2014 | 23

Naver raver charged over 25 MEEELLION account breach palaver

£90,000 heist made possible after South Korean portal yields its secrets

Security27 Mar 2014 | 2

Galaxy S5 launch parties to fizzle in Samsung's back yard

Korean courts ban top carriers from selling new mobes

Legal11 Mar 2014 | 7

Twelve million hit as Korea suffers ANOTHER massive data breach

KT Corp caught with its passwords down for third time in two years

Security07 Mar 2014 | 3

South Korea green lights Stuxnet-like code weapons to nark Norks

Nuke it from cyberspace, it's the only way to be sure

Legal21 Feb 2014 | 10

Korean credit card companies hit with 90-day, $100m sales ban

Punishment for losing 20m customer records makes other data breach laws look wimpy

Legal20 Feb 2014 | 27

Korean credit card bosses offer to RESIGN over huge data breach

After IT worker nabbed for putting details of nearly HALF of all SK citizens on USB

Security22 Jan 2014 | 9

Nearly HALF of South Korea hacked in insider data theft

Temporary contractor cuffed after credit card swipe

Security20 Jan 2014 | 9

Samsung targets South Korean army recruits

Pilot hire scheme offers hi-tech jobs for soldiers

Legal15 Jan 2014 | 2

South Korea to spend £290 million on 5G land grab

Sod the standards, Seoul wants a working network by 2018

Legal18 Dec 2013 | 4

NORKS breaks ground on new high-tech industrial park

That's the end for Silcon Roundabout then

Legal18 Nov 2013 | 18

Latest global menace: ELECTROPULSE NORKS, apparently

Crazed dictator has electronics-nobbler death rays, claim spies

Legal08 Nov 2013 | 40

Norks seed online games with malware in fiendish DDoS plot

Seoul police believe country's love of gaming will be turned upon itself

Security25 Oct 2013 | 3

NORKS cyber mayhem cost South Korea £500m

Attacks since 2009 highlight defence gaps, says lawmaker

Legal16 Oct 2013 | 9

Icefog hit-and-run hackers uncovered in Asia

Less persistent but more focused targeted attacks hit hundreds

Security26 Sep 2013 | 2

Seoul-blackening disk wipe badness linked to 4-year SPY CAMPAIGN

Can Norks afford malware writers?

Legal11 Jul 2013 | 8

Seoul to train 5,000 infosec pros

South Korea employs just 200 today despite ongoing NORKS attacks

Security09 Jul 2013 | 1

North and South Korea hit by cyber-blitz on Korean War anniversary

Official Nork portals knocked offline, South Korean prez and PM also KO'd

Security25 Jun 2013 | 9

NORKS harbouring 3,000-strong cyber army, claims Seoul

Most people might not have the interwebs but these guys are GOOD

Legal21 Jun 2013 | 16

Russians draw liquid blood from frozen woolly mammoth

10,000 year-old specimen could inspire Korean cloning

Science30 May 2013 | 39

Now beaming live from Pyongyang: NORKSCASTS!

Voice of Korea discovers streaming media to bring absolute truth

Legal29 May 2013 | 43

Dunkin' Donuts temps S Korea with ultrasonic tags

'Tell your friends about your, ahem, sugared dough breakfast'

Networks03 May 2013 | 22

AWS speeds content delivery, Gangnam style

CloudFront and Route 53 customers come to South Korea

SaaS03 May 2013 |

Bill Gates offends Koreans after sticking hand down trousers

'American style' session with madam president

Bootnotes24 Apr 2013 | 161

Seoul plans anti-GPS jamming system to thwart NORKS

Naughty North Korea has been disrupting signals since 2010

Legal10 Apr 2013 | 35

Take a deep breath: No NORKS panic for ICT supply chain … yet

Regional tech titans are keeping a close eye on situation

Legal09 Apr 2013 | 6

South Korea data-wipe malware spread by patching system

Long dark teatime in Seoul saga continues to unfold

Security25 Mar 2013 | 14

Experts finger disk-wiping badness used in S Korea megahack

The long, dark teatime of the Seoul

Security22 Mar 2013 | 18

South Korean TV and banks paralysed in disk-wipe cyber-blitz

Too early to blame network meltdown on Norks

Security20 Mar 2013 | 21

South Koreans pawn shiny tech for stress-free loans

Hocking Gangnam Style!

On-Prem07 Feb 2013 | 9

Samsung's squillionaire supremo scuttles siblings' shares snatch

Lee Kun-Hee wins lawsuit at heart of chaebol power struggle

On-Prem01 Feb 2013 | 12

North Korean crackers hit South Korean hacks

Presidential transition team targeted by Pyongyang

Legal17 Jan 2013 | 2

'Abnormal' thruster halts South Korean space rocket launch

Third attempt to put first rocket in orbit cancelled

Science29 Nov 2012 | 7

South Korea bans Apple's AND Samsung's ageing phones, tabs

Patent court dishes out pocket-change fines too

Legal24 Aug 2012 | 32

Hong Kong has fastest broadband on the planet

Slaps South Korea into second as UK finishes out of the medals in 21st

Networks13 Aug 2012 | 22

Pair collared after 'mobe giant hacked, info on 8.7 million sold'

Another 7 probed for buying private data in South Korea

On-Prem31 Jul 2012 | 1

HTC leaves South Korea to Samsung, LG et al

Exits quietly, but not very brilliantly ...

On-Prem31 Jul 2012 | 12

South Korean crackers arrested

Yet another data leak at KT

Security29 Jul 2012 | 3

Cops nab mobile net workmen for snarfing punters' data

Gang allegedly tracked and sold Koreans' info

Security09 Mar 2012 | 4

Google accused of meddling with S Korean probe

Search giant refutes anti-competition officials' claims of missing files

On-Prem09 Jan 2012 | 11

Korean antitrust agency raids Google over Android

Claims top dog eats competition

Legal07 Sep 2011 | 12

Angry S Koreans mass-sue Apple over iPhone tracking

You must pay each of us one meellion won! <cough> £568

Legal17 Aug 2011 | 29

Nearly everyone in SOUTH KOREA HACKED IN ONE GO

Local equivalent of Facebook hit: Fingers point at China

Security28 Jul 2011 | 29

Koreans produce $3m glow-in-the-dark dog

Effulgent blacklight beagle can be switched on and off

Science27 Jul 2011 | 39

Sth Korea govt cracks down on blogger blaggers

No such thing as a free social media plug

On-Prem14 Jul 2011 | 5

Well, that about wraps it up for the NBN

Stop looking at South Korea, says Turnbull

Networks16 Jun 2011 | 32

North Korea blamed for bank hack

Hackers not so lonely

Security03 May 2011 | 9

Google faces another privacy probe

South Korean cops raid offices looking for mobile advertising wrongness

Networks03 May 2011 | 11

IBM accused of bribery in China, South Korea

SEC says thanks for $10m fine

Channel18 Mar 2011 | 10

South Korea blitzed by DDoSers

Up to 40 government websites targeted

Security04 Mar 2011 | 4

SK Telecom to bring LTE 4G mobe data to Seoul

WiMax? We prefer not to mention it nowadays

Networks13 Jan 2011 | 1

South Korea delivers stern warning to...Facebook

30-day deadline to clean up on privacy

Legal10 Dec 2010 | 21

Korean cops raid Google

Street View snoop search

Legal10 Aug 2010 | 13

Phorm's losses top $100m

Revenues: $0

On-Prem30 Jun 2010 | 52