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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. 1. Trump revenge tour targets cyber leaders, elections – Krebs on Security In April 2025, the Trump administration revoked the security clearance of former […]
Las Vegas ― At Google Cloud Next 25, the tech giant unveiled a sweeping vision for the future of cybersecurity, tightly woven with the fabric of artificial intelligence. At the forefront of this transformation are two major innovations: Security Agents and Google Unified Security (GUS). These technologies exemplify Google’s mission to reimagine the role of […]
“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. A journalist was accidentally invited to a Signal group chat […]
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 […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam and Dain Oh in South Korea. The Readable has picked five news stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. South Korea fines Google, Meta 100 billion won over privacy violation South Korean regulators on Wednesday fined Google and Meta for breaching the country’s rules on privacy. The Personal Information […]
While the official YouTube channel of the South Korean government was hacked early this month, a statistic was released to the public, showing that more than half a million hacking attempts were carried out against South Korean government agencies over the past six years. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the South […]
Hello, this is Dain Oh in South Korea. For the past few days, there have been some notable security breaches in this country. The official YouTube channel of the government was hacked. Personal information was leaked from an international event which was held by the Ministry of Unification. As we all know, a data breach […]
Leaders of international organizations, enterprises, and universities gathered in Seoul to discuss a new concept of cybersecurity which is called “bright internet.” As a preemptive measure against the skyrocketing number of cyber-attacks, the notion of bright internet urges trusted individuals and corporations to voluntarily get certified and expand secure cyberspace throughout the internet. Under the […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam in South Korea. The Readable has carefully selected four news stories to share with you for the weekend. In addition to these four stories, I have also added three brief news articles that we produced this week. If you have any questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact us. […]
A hacker group calling themselves SiegedSec have come forward to claim that they gained access to an information technology firm in South Korea. Through their Telegram channel, the group uploaded a video on Thursday to prove their claim, which demonstrated their ability to access an administrator account of the firm WhaTap and manipulate the service. […]
