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Seoul, South Korea ― South Korea has expressed support for the United Kingdom’s public attribution of a cyber espionage campaign to Russian military intelligence, joining a growing chorus of international condemnation against malicious Russian cyber activities. On July 18, the British government announced it had formally attributed the use of a sophisticated malware—dubbed “Authentic Antics”—to […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. In recent months, governments and cybersecurity researchers have observed a consistent rise in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, state agencies and private entities. International law enforcement operations, financially motivated thefts and state-linked espionage campaigns have revealed significant vulnerabilities across digital ecosystems. This […]
As enterprise systems grow more automated and interconnected, cybersecurity is no longer just a matter of defending the perimeter. For Pega, a maker of low-code process automation tools used across regulated industries, security is a question of balance—between openness and control, speed and stability, autonomy and oversight. And that balance, according to Chief Cloud Officer […]
Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea – AhnLab, a leader in cybersecurity, today announced that it has completed this year’s MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations Round 5 with AhnLab EPP and AhnLab EDR, underscoring their competence to detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threat techniques. In the evaluation emulating the threat group Turla with a multi-phased intelligence-collection operation, […]
Financial institutions need to pay more and better attention to the “human element” in their quest to create a fully secure banking system if they hope to be able to counter emerging cyber threats, stressed Kim Chul-woong, South Korea’s top financial security official, on Thursday. Kim, President of the Financial Security Institute (FSI), noted that […]
Bad actors could compromise artificial intelligence models by installing backdoors and using them to exploit their targets secretly, warned a cybersecurity expert on Wednesday. Lim Jong-in, Distinguished Professor in the School of Cybersecurity at Korea University, speaking at the 8th AI Ethics and Legislation Forum held in Seoul, discussed cybersecurity challenges likely to arise in […]
South Korea is taking a step forward in achieving its goal of protecting data in public institutions through quantum technology as the country witnesses the debut of a security-certified quantum cryptographic device. On Tuesday, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) greenlighted a quantum key management system (QKMS) product, making it the first such equipment to pass […]
Recent advances in artificial intelligence appear poised to assist organizations in establishing best practices to more effectively counter cyber threats, according to a Google Cloud executive on Monday. Mark Johnston, Director of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Google Cloud, stressed the importance of our taking a new perspective on generative […]
South Korean police arrested 51 individuals for their involvement in telephone fraud after receiving assistance from an artificial intelligence model specifically designed to combat phone scams, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Tuesday. In a press release, the Interior Ministry stated that the police have captured members of three different phone […]
South Korea’s science ministry is investigating a group of experts at the national aerospace research institution over leaked industrial technologies. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday, the ministry’s audit and inspection division is currently investigating a possible data leak out of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The MSIT did not […]
The Korea Drone Security Association (KDSA) will host a drone hacking competition on December 1 at Kyung Hee University, Seoul. To encourage preparedness in the race to defend drone systems against attacks from malicious actors, the KDSA will host its “Hack the DRONE Festival” this year. The competition will give security experts the opportunity to […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter that is sent to The Readable’s subscribers every Friday. Journalists for The Readable select important news stories from the previous week. Topics encompass privacy, cybercrime, and policy development in cybersecurity. There are no costs involved with a subscription, and some content, such as industrial reports, is only available to […]
Singapore ― SICW 2023 ― Generative artificial intelligence makers should take security into account as the latest technology could pose a significant threat worldwide, the head of the United States cybersecurity agency said Tuesday. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an updated guideline on software security on October 17, titled “Shifting the […]
