Advanced persistent threat, or APT, may sound unfamiliar to many people. The term is used to describe the cyber attacks that were recently conducted on major broadcast stations and financial institutions including KBS and NongHyup.What many of us don’t know is that this cyber threat, which could occur in many different forms including sending document files with malicious codes attached, can target any one of us.“The APT cyber attack is one that can turn the targeted person’s personal computer i

Lack of experts allows cyber risks to fester

The next two generations of iPhone may have been already designed by the late Steve Jobs, U.S. media reported. The rumor surfaced from a conversation on the safeguarding mechanism for mobile handsets between Apple’s government liaison Michael Foulkes and San Francisco district attorney George Gascon. Foulkes reportedly said the tech giant has a few options for the next two generations of iPhone because they had been already planned under Jobs, according to Fox News.The talk came as Gascon was co

The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its widely popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak.Apple, however, has until July 24 to better explain how the iPad mini is different and unique from the larger-sized iPad to counter the rejection seen as largely a formality.The iPad mini mark "merely describes a feature or characteristic of applicant's good," said the rejection letter dated January 24 but that has only

　 　LONDON -- A cyberbattle between a European spam-fighting group and a Dutch Web host may be the biggest public Internet battle in history, experts say.　Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus, with offices in London and Geneva, works with email providers around the globe to block spam from entering inboxes.　It has been in a battle in the last week with Dutch website hosting company Cyberbunker after adding it to its spam “blacklist,” CNET reported Wednesday.　Cyberbunker has based its business on a

Security concerns still linger in corporate sector

Google has picked 8,000 people in the U.S. who will have a chance to wear the company‘s new Internet-connected glasses, which are being described as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.Google Inc. began notifying contest winners Tuesday.The winners will have to pay $1,500 apiece if they want a test version of the product, called ``Google Glass.’‘ They also will have to travel to New York, Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay area to pick up the device, which isn’t expected to be available

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Complaints from Google have led to the deletion of the word “ungoogleable” from a list of new Swedish words, the Language Council of Sweden says.The country‘s language watchdog has defined “ungoogleable” -- “ogooglebar” in Swedish -- as something that does not show up in results from any Internet search engine, but Google insisted the word, since it contains “Google,” should refer only to Google searches, the council reported.The council publishes an annual list of 10 new w

　　　CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Software and hardware units at U.S. technology company Apple are now working more closely together, sources told The Wall Street Journal.　In the past, Jonathan Ive, the executive behind the sleek look of Apple‘s hardware, has had his own software development team create proxy operating systems that are used in the design phase of a new product.　The team developing the software that will end up in the product in stores, however, has been working on software without even k

The latest nationwide hacking attack on Korea appears to have conspired via a wide assortment of methods, including the distribution of malicious spamware and seizing data servers. Network software at some of the hacking targets also was damaged after the culprits targeted the more vulnerable aspects of the software. The broadcasters, for instance, suffered damages to the boot sector of their operating systems, while the databases at banks such as Shinhan and Nonghyup malfunctioned because of at