The South Korean intelligence agency disclosed on Wednesday that last month they discovered malware embedded inside a measuring instrument made in China. In a press conference, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) stated that the vulnerable device was one of the supplies provided to government organizations. This is the first time that the country’s intelligence agency […]

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South Koreans should be cautious of email phishing scams as they are the most prolific attacks deployed against the country, warned a cybersecurity expert on Wednesday. “A lot of people underestimate the impact of email-based attacks. Even security experts regard them as something harmless that they encounter every day,” said Mun Chong-hyun, director of the […]

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Updated Jul. 18, 2023 7:49PM GMT+9 South Korea should be making efforts to train the cyber defenders rather than the offenders to protect the country from a new era where everything is connected to the internet, according to a cybersecurity professional on Friday. “South Korea is more reliant to the internet than North Korea. The […]

By Dain Oh, The ReadableJun. 30, 2023 9:45PM GMT+9 Updated Jul. 1, 2023 12:50AM 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 encompass cybercrime, geopolitics, […]

The National Intelligence Service of South Korea published a security guideline on Thursday regarding generative artificial intelligence technology. In the 60 pages of instructions, the spy agency specified security threats that may result from using generative AI and recommended that users not enter any classified or sensitive information into the latest technology. “While ChatGPT came […]