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Seoul, South Korea — Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security, led by Dean Jung Ikrae, announced it will launch the first Korean University Security Advanced Course (KUSAC), an executive education program focused on practical training in artificial intelligence security, on Sept. 3. The program is designed to develop high-level technical and policy experts capable […]
Google Cloud has introduced a new data residency service in South Korea that allows businesses to process artificial intelligence workloads entirely within the country, addressing rising demand for stronger data sovereignty and regulatory compliance among local enterprises. While Google Cloud has long offered customers control over where their data is stored, the new service goes […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. A series of recent cyber incidents across the globe has exposed critical vulnerabilities in sectors ranging from aviation and telecoms to political institutions and tech infrastructure. From Qantas grappling with a breach threatening millions of customer records, to sophisticated North Korean […]
Updated Jan. 19, 2024 7:55PM GMT+9 In November of 2023, a joint team comprised of the South Korean intelligence agency and four cybersecurity firms revealed a dark corner of the web that few would have believed existed: an alleged Chinese influence campaign involving more than three dozen fake websites disguised to resemble South Korean news […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. Our journalists select important news items from the previous week on topics ranging from privacy to policy development in cybersecurity, all to help you stay abreast of the latest breaking issues. And not only is this provided free of cost to […]
By Dain Oh, The ReadableDec. 20, 2023 4:58PM GMT+9 Updated Dec. 21, 2023 10:10PM GMT+9 Okinawa, Japan ― MobiSec 2023 ― Academic exchange to advance cybersecurity is taking place in Okinawa, bringing together hundreds of researchers from 11 countries. Emerging issues, such as artificial intelligence and post quantum cryptography, in addition to mobile networks and […]
South Korea’s presidential office is exploring the possible benefits of reorganizing its national security sector as a means to strengthen the nation’s ability to safeguard its economic security, according to a South Korean news outlet on Monday. On December 18, TV Chosun, a South Korean local broadcast media outlet, exclusively reported the internal discussion within […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. Our journalists select important news items from the previous week on topics ranging from privacy to policy development in cybersecurity, all to help you stay abreast of the latest breaking issues. And not only is this provided free of cost to […]
South Korea is seeking to expand its security-certified Internet of Things (IoT) devices globally as it takes its first step towards broadening its market in the Asia Pacific region. On December 14 in Singapore, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) signed a memorandum of understanding concerning […]
The world’s first comprehensive body of rules on artificial intelligence has taken a big step toward becoming reality as European Union negotiators clinched a political deal on the regulation of AI technologies. On December 9, EU policymakers announced that they had reached a provisional agreement on governing the use of AI technologies after a three-day […]
A South Korean research organization dedicated to developing national standards of post quantum cryptography (PQC) announced the results of its first round of competition on Thursday in which 16 algorithms submitted from November of last year to October of this year were compared. Of the numerous applicants, eight algorithms were selected to compete in the […]
Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concerns on Tuesday about the perils posed by unregulated artificial intelligence technology, stating that the risks are too great to allow the technology to proliferate unchecked and uncontrolled. “Experts are continually sounding alarms, stressing that without proper oversight and international regulations, AI could unleash catastrophes that will rival […]
A South Korean man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding more than a hundred people through a cross-border telephone scam that spanned nearly six years. According to local news outlet Yonhap News Agency, the Daejon District Court ordered the forty-one-year-old suspect, who was the leader of the phone scamming operation, to pay […]
