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Daily Briefing is a curated listicle made available by The Readable. We select a handful of significant stories worth sharing with our readers and present them in an easy-to-read, accessible format. Dain Oh and Minkyung Shin collaborate in monitoring, selecting, and reviewing the news articles, with Arthur Gregory Willers contributing to improve the overall readability […]
A cybersecurity expert stated that the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance is adopting a new strategy centered on networked governance, an approach to security in which state ministries and agencies work together to enhance threat detection, response, and resilience in cybersecurity efforts. On Wednesday, Seung Hugh Shin, PhD Candidate in International Relations at Seoul National University, […]
RSA Conference 2022 ― San Francisco ― “Imagine that someone was to break into your house and stay for nine months. It is unthinkable in the real world, but in cyber this is the problem that we are up against,” said Tom Gillis during the opening keynotes at the RSA conference Monday. The senior vice […]
A user impersonating the operator of RaidForums, which was shut down in February of this year, has recently appeared with a scam campaign. About RaidForums RaidForums started in 2015 and ended in February of this year after seven years of operation. This forum was one of the largest forums where cybercriminals traded illegal data. Unlike […]
We picked five stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Reporters Won a Victory Over Mandatory App Download Yoon Suk-yeol, the newly elected president of South Korea, ordered his presidential office not to coerce reporters into downloading a security application last Tuesday. It was a victory for reporters who argued that the app could […]
Tackling smart home hacks has emerged as one of the key promises made in local elections in South Korea. Bae Kook-hwan, the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Seongnam mayoral election, promised to protect personal data from smart home hacks. In a statement released to the press last Tuesday, Bae stressed that he would put an […]
South Korea became the first country in Asia to join the highly renowned NATO cyber defense group, South Korea’s intelligence agency stated Thursday. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in the statement that it had been formally admitted into the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). Alongside South Korea, Canada and Luxemburg were […]
The incoming government of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol plans to tear down barriers across government agencies to improve data-sharing between the public and private sectors, the chief of the transition team, Ahn Cheol-soo, said. “We are already ten years behind other countries in the data industry. If we don’t implement changes in the upcoming presidency, we […]