MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Cybercrime is both global and organised, Mike Humphrey at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), told the audience at the Security for a Digital Britain conference on 24 September in Nottingham.

Vodafone has revealed it is developing a secure and encrypted data / password vault for smartphones. Known as Keeper Mobile, the encryption technology will be released by the mobile carrier’s operations worldwide by the end of the year.

The Muscat chapter of the Information Systems Audit, Control Association (ISACA) held an education seminar on information security earlier this month at the College of Banking and Financial Studies in Oman.

The increasing blurring of network perimeters has accelerated as a direct result of the introduction of cloud computing to the corporate IT mix, but can your IT security handle the challenge?

Takedowns, Tools, Threats, and Tsk, Tsk! We review the week’s information security news.

DeviceLock, the endpoint security specialist, has announced that the Gazpromneft-Khantos branch of Gazprom Neft, the high-profile Russian oil company, has selected its software for endpoint security.

Popular websites have been made to serve up malware via malicious advertising delivered by advertising banner services.

The New York Times has admitted it has been the victim of a complex scam, in which a group of hackers purchased ad space on the famous publisher’s website, then posed as internet telephony company Vonage, to infect users with malware.

Websense Security Labs has found a spam operation targeting players of the old game favourite, Monopoly, via social networking methods.

MI5 has hired a batch of Asian teenage computer hackers to help fight cyberterrorism in China, Russia and Pakistan.