The Readable’s year in review: Our readers in the world

By Dain Oh, The Readable
Dec. 30, 2022 11:28PM KST

Hello! This is Dain Oh, the founding editor-in-chief of The Readable. It has been just over seven months since The Readable came into the world. Our team has published more than 90 news articles so far, including one report and one book which are both available online.

Our readers have grown larger, encompassing the world. Professionals from the United States, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and more have visited The Readable to be updated on the current news in information security and international trends. It has been an incredible journey for us to become a voice through the worldwide network. It would not be successful without each one of our readers.

As for this week’s briefing, our team has picked 10 stories from the entire list of news articles that we have published so far. At the bottom of this letter, I have also included an interview article which I believe is worth reading at the end of this year. The Readable will continue striving to deliver more valuable news stories that give our readers insights and intellectual power next year.

1. South Korea joins NATO for cyber defense. First in Asia

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2. South Korea conducts multinational cybersecurity training including US, China and Russia

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3. Military eyes cyber defense to neutralize North Korean nuclear weapons

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4. A story from Europe: The ultimate complexity of balancing between protecting and sharing information

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5. SiegedSec group claims hack of IT monitoring firm WhaTap

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6. The new ruler of the underground: LockBit ransomware chips away at the global economy

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7. The full picture of Kimsuky operation: Look at the moon, not at the finger

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8. Cyber as a silent nuclear weapon: Former director of Mossad urges global leaders to take charge of cyberspace

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9. BEC Is the next ransomware: Ransomware attackers will turn their eyes to BEC

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10. Korean intelligence agency opens cybersecurity collaboration center

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[Feature interview] The man whose Log4j scanner saved the day for users worldwide

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The cover of this article was designed by Areum Hwang.

Dain Oh is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist based in South Korea and the founding editor-in-chief of The Readable by S2W. Before joining S2W, she worked as a reporter for The Electronic Times, the top IT newspaper in Korea, covering the cybersecurity industry on an in-depth level. She reported numerous exclusive stories, and her work related to the National Intelligence Service led to her being honored with the Journalist of the Year Award in 2021 by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology in a unanimous decision. She was also the first journalist to report on the hacking of vulnerable wallpads in South Korean apartments, which later became a nation-wide issue.