MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The electricity industry has failed to consistently include cybersecurity features in the deployment of smart grid systems, and jurisdictional disputes have stymied government action, judged the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Researchers have discovered new phishing campaigns targeted against online gamers: Trend Micro citing WOW: Mists of Pandaria, and GFI Software citing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle, the researchers who worked with the Washington Post to uncover security gaps in Tridium’s Niagara Framework, said that Tridium has been “unresponsive” to fixing the flaws.

Cisco announced yesterday that it had completed the acquisition of a little known privately held company that develops security for cloud and virtualized environments.

First State Bank in Kansas opened two new mortgage offices, and recruited staff from Pulaski Bank – but Pulaski claims that staff wasn’t all they took.

The FBI is teaming with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and George Mason University to perform fuzz testing on Android mobile applications.

Authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous of Germany’s 16 federal states, have purchased a CD containing the private Swiss bank details of about 1000 wealthy German citizens.

New details from Iron Mountain show the extent to which employees leaving employment will take confidential company data with them when they go.

A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) official urged Congress on Thursday to reauthorize the Safe Web Act, which gives the agency power to combat cross-border online scammers.

Last month Ofcom finally published its draft code for the application of the Digital Economy Act. Now UK ISP Entanet asks, “is the DEA old before its time?”