MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Cautionary tale for firms which don’t invest enough upfront in cybersecurity

84 percent of respondents used some type of security framework, and most organizations surveyed used more than one.

Hackers are hiring underground providers to hide their funds

This exposes unpatched Windows users to more than 700 known vulnerabilities (including those that affect IE 11 and Edge).

Employee details accidentally leaked by benefits management firm.

Wei Chen was given security clearance at a defense contractor

Some AV firms are taking data without contributing

US retail giant Walmart has confirmed reports that a number of its customers have had their payment cards compromised and bank accounts drained.

An administrative error resulted in addresses wrongly entered into the ‘to’ field instead of the ‘bcc’ field.

He said that he suspects the attackers were bent on cyber-espionage, and were likely of Russian origin.