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Telegram’s artificial intelligence bot, a core feature of the popular messaging app, is being misused to generate deepfake pornography. In response to this alarming trend, South Korean police and the Ministry of Education have formed a task force to investigate and tackle the problem. On Wednesday, the Cybercrime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police […]
Amid a nationwide strike by South Korean doctors that has stretched on for more than six months, tensions have escalated as a list of doctors who have returned to work was recently circulated online, sparking concern over doxing and potential threats to those breaking ranks. Initially uploaded to the file-sharing website Pastebin on August 9, […]
A Kentucky man has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison after faking his own death by hacking a government system to evade child support payments, according to U.S. prosecutors. Jesse Kipf, a 39-year-old man from Somerset, Kentucky, faked his own death in January 2023 to avoid paying child support. Kipf accomplished […]
* This article was written in collaboration with Ringle. Have you ever imagined someone watching you on the other side of your laptop? I picture unknown peepers staring at me all the time whenever I see the camera on my computer. As a cybersecurity journalist, I learned early in my career that web cameras, or […]
RSA Conference ― San Francisco ― While the evolution of artificial intelligence challenges the self-perception of human beings, society needs to build identity security platforms by leveraging good AI, an identity expert said on Monday. Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA, analyzed that security comes first in the age of AI among the three main components […]
Three out of four South Koreans who seek compensation for privacy violations have reached a settlement through the assistance of the nation’s privacy watchdog last year. According to the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Sunday, 206 cases related to conflicts over personal information being compromised have been resolved through the commission’s dispute mediation committee […]
KakaoTalk, a mobile messaging application used by almost the entire population of South Korea, has been wrapped up in a massive controversy over personal data breaches. Its open chat rooms, which are supposed to protect the anonymity of participants, allegedly leak breadcrumbs out of users’ private information, providing malicious actors with opportunities to identify users […]
Camera footage that shows medical examinations in a plastic surgeon’s office in Seoul has been exposed online and is being circulated through obscene websites based in China. The South Korean police launched an investigation to trace the initial cause of the breach. The Seoul Metropolitan Police conducted an on-site investigation at one hospital located in […]
A South Korean regulator is bracing for a legal battle with Facebook parent Meta and Google after the companies filed a lawsuit last month against the privacy watchdog’s decision to give them the largest fine in the agency’s history, 100 billion won ($75 million), for violating the nation’s privacy law. According to the Personal Information […]
* This article was written in collaboration with Ringle. Are you someone who always forgets passwords and finds yourself struggling to reset login information? Welcome to the club! It has only been more and more difficult to remember every single password for different types of online services. Some of us have dealt with this stress […]
By Kuksung Nam and Dain Oh, The ReadableFeb. 24, 2023 8:18PM GMT+9 Updated Feb. 27, 2023 4:55PM GMT+9 “Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter that is sent to The Readable’s subscribers every Friday. Cybersecurity journalists for The Readable carefully select important news stories from the previous week and deliver them in a compact form. Topics […]
By Dain Oh and Kuksung Nam, The ReadableFeb. 17, 2023 8:45PM GMT+9 Updated Feb. 20, 2023 8:45PM GMT+9 “Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter that is sent to The Readable’s subscribers every Friday. Cybersecurity journalists for The Readable carefully select important news stories from the previous week and deliver them in a compact form. Topics […]
South Korean telecommunication conglomerate LG Uplus announced on Thursday that the company will increase its cybersecurity spending by three folds, which amounts to 100 billion won (approximately $80 million), acknowledging its failure to protect the personal information of customers and maintain the availability of networks against malicious actors. Hwang Hyeon-sik, CEO at LG Uplus, held […]
