By Dain Oh, The ReadableJun. 9, 2023 8:45PM 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, and privacy. There are no costs […]

By Kuksung Nam, The ReadableMay 19, 2023 8:21PM 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, and privacy. There are no costs […]

By Kuksung Nam, The ReadableMay 17, 2023 7:19PM GMT+9 Cybercriminals actively used stolen credentials to gain initial access to their targets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region last year, according to a cybersecurity expert on Wednesday. Oh Jin-suk, the head of security engineers in South Korea and North Asia at Mandiant, now officially owned by Google, […]

The South Korean military is planning to take part in annual multinational cyber exercises led by the United States, known as “Cyber Flag.” The Ministry of National Defense said on Wednesday that they announced their intention to regularly participate in the Cyber Flag exercise to their U.S. counterpart during the 8th South Korea and U.S. […]

Updated May 6, 2023 9:35AM GMT+9 San Francisco ― It was 2014 when Canadians found themselves falling victim to hacking. In July of that year, government investigators in Canada confirmed that the digital footprints, discovered in the network of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), belonged to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The NRC is the […]

San Francisco ― Cybersecurity professionals gathered at the world’s largest cybersecurity conference from April 24 to 27 at the Moscone Center to share insights and look out to the future of the industry. Artificial intelligence was one of the most frequently mentioned topics during the RSA Conference. Speakers acknowledged AI as a gamechanger in the […]

RSA Conference 2023 ― San Francisco ― The United States government officials in cybersecurity joined an interdisciplinary discussion on Wednesday to share their underlying thoughts regarding the National Cybersecurity Strategy. Announced by the Biden administration in early March, the strategy aims to defend cyberspace by rebalancing responsibilities within society and realigning incentives for long-term investments. […]

RSA Conference ― San Francisco ― Cybersecurity heads of four nations that have been sharing threat intelligence under the alliance called the “Five Eyes” participated in the RSA Conference on Tuesday, asking for multinational collaboration to defend citizens from surging ransomware attacks. The leaders asserted that all nations should participate in the International Counter Ransomware […]

RSA Conference 2023 ― San Francisco ― Forming a partnership with law enforcement is essential to proactively respond to financially motivated cybercrimes, the United States Secret Service (USSS) expert asserted on Monday. Matt O’Neill, Deputy Special Agent at the USSS Criminal Investigation Division and Head of the Global Investigative Operations Center (GIOC), stressed the importance […]

By Dain Oh, The ReadableApr. 21, 2023 9:13PM GMT+9 Updated Apr. 22, 2023 3:05PM 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, […]