cybersecurity
Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, t ...
firm. The company was founded by Dr. Mario Heidrich, a client side security researcher.
After a report from Cure53 on the
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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Smart Sheriff
Smart Sheriff ( ko, 스마트보안관) is a South Korean parental monitoring mobile app, introduced in 2015. It was developed by Korean app maker MOIBA, and is distributed free, sponsored by the South Korean government, which supported its develo ...
, that described the app's security holes as "catastrophic", the South Korean government ordered the Smart Sheriff to be shut down.