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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 […]
As drug trafficking is rising as a nationwide problem, South Korean prosecutors will form a drug squad which will specifically monitor the dark web and its illegal drug trade, reported local news outlets referring to an official document submitted by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office on Thursday. According to the reports, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office plans […]
The South Korean police arrested an alleged leader and second in command of a criminal gang based in the Philippines. The suspects were involved in cross-border telephone fraud targeting South Koreans from 2017 to 2021. The Korean National Police Agency said in a press release on Thursday that the two suspects, who are both in […]
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, […]
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 […]
