http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2014/04/133_155401.html
By Kim Yoo-chul
The Korea Times
2014-04-15
Around 35 million of Korea's population of 52 million population use
mobile devices.
But with this rising connectedness comes increased vulnerability to
hacking; but so far, the country has failed to protect user information
from hacking and other cyber security attacks.
"It's fair to say Korea has emerged as a haven for hackers," said Chun
Kil-nam, an expert in cyber security and a former professor at the Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tuesday.
"But what’s worse is that the country has no comprehensive plans to ward
off technologically sophisticated hackers and criminals," Chun said.
Global security software firm Symantec said in a recent analysis that the
confidential information of over half-a-billion people around the world
was hacked last year. Korea alone accounted for 20 percent of those.
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