All posts tagged "surveillance"

  • South Korean high school students play games on their smartphones on a bench on the sidewalk in Seoul, South Korea. Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app, vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to easily violate the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
    S. Korean surveillance app putting children at risk

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app – vulnerabilities that left the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens open to hackers. In separate...

    • Posted September 21, 2015
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  • An official at Yongin Dongbu Police Station in Yongin, South Korea, on July 19, 2015, holds up a page of the will left by a National Intellgence Service employee who was found dead the previous day. (Yonhap)
    NIS agent denies link to civilian surveillance in apparent suicide note

    SEOUL/YONGIN, July 19 (Yonhap) — The spy agency employee recently found dead denied in his apparent suicide note that the intelligence body used its controversial hacking program on civilians, police said Sunday. Police earlier disclosed part of...

    • Posted July 19, 2015
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  • South Korean middle school students use their smartphones at a bus station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Prying parents: Phone surveillance apps flourish in S. Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Lee Chang-june can be miles from his 12-year-old son but still know when he plays a smartphone game. With the press of an app he can see his son’s phone activity, disable...

    • Posted May 15, 2015
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  • (Courtesy of John Seung-Hwan Shin via Creative Commons license)
    CCTV to be required at all S. Korean daycare centers

    By Jung Min-ho Surveillance cameras will soon be required at all daycare centers in Korea as lawmakers have agreed to enact such a policy in an effrot to prevent child abuse. The political accord came after liberal...

    • Posted January 22, 2015
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