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“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, cybercrime crackdowns and surging investor appetite for security technologies, recent developments highlight how governments and businesses worldwide are confronting digital threats. From U.S. sanctions targeting North Korea’s covert IT operations, to record crypto seizures by American agents, […]
As cyber threats grow in sophistication and scale, Databricks is redefining how modern enterprises should think about security — both in the cloud and across artificial intelligence-powered systems. Omar Khawaja, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Databricks, believes the future of cybersecurity lies not in chasing individual incidents, but in managing patterns, risks and data […]
A Chinese hacker accused of helping to steal COVID-19 research and launch a sweeping global cyberattack has been arrested in Italy and faces extradition to the United States, the Justice Department said Monday. Xu Zewei, 33, was taken into custody July 3 in Milan at the request of U.S. authorities. He and his alleged co-conspirator, […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his team of chief secretaries on Monday to launch a task force dedicated to national security in response to the chaos which unplugged the nation for at least three days. The task force will be led by the Office of National Security. Kim Sung-han, the National Security Adviser, will […]
Authorities said on Monday that it had shut down a malicious website that was abusing the nation-wide confusion caused by a fire at a data center of South Korea’s popular mobile messenger company, Kakao Talk. The Ministry of Science and ICT said in a press release that the ministry and the Korea Internet & Security […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam in South Korea. During the past week of state audits, Korean government agencies faced severe criticism from the Congress over cybersecurity. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT were no exception. Among the various revelations from the audit, The Readable has picked one notable news story […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam and Dain Oh in South Korea. The Readable has picked four news stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Korean government’s cloud computing policy draws sharp criticism from lawmakers South Korean lawmakers denounced the government’s new cloud computing cybersecurity certificate on Tuesday at the parliamentary audit, saying that the […]
A South Korean lawmaker sharply criticized the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and its affiliated public institutions for a lack of cybersecurity awareness. “Although the cybersecurity posture of the affiliated public institutions turns out to be alarming every year, the department and its institutions do not make the effort to improve,” said Eom Tae-young, […]
Hello, this is Dain Oh and Kuksung Nam in South Korea. The Readable has picked four news stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Korean telecom giant leaked its staff information onto the dark web One of the largest telecommunication companies in South Korea was confirmed to have leaked its employees’ personal information onto […]
South Korean military detected 42,847 cases of attempted hacking on its computer network from 2017 to 2021. More than eleven thousand hacking attempts were conducted last year trying to break into the military’s computer network, which is almost three times more than five years ago. According to a press release on Tuesday by Lim Byung-heon, […]
Cybersecurity researchers in South Korea and the United States will put their heads together with an aim to restrain ransomware attacks around the world. According to a press release by Sejong University, researchers at four different institutions of cybersecurity located in South Korea and the United States, including the University of Virginia and MITRE, will […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam in South Korea. The Readable has picked five news stories for you. They include two news articles by Dain Oh, who covered the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul from Tuesday to Thursday. Have a great weekend! 1. South Korean police capture man accused of 14 billion won crypto hack South […]
World Knowledge Forum 2022 ― Seoul ― A former director of the Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel, emphasized global risks which are increased by cyber threats in the same way that the world is threatened by nuclear proliferation. “I define cyber [threats] as a silent nuclear weapon,” said Tamir Pardo, former director of […]
