MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

A useful cyber-defensive utility can be turned into a powerful tool for cyber-attackers in the form of full access to millions of users’ computers, according to research from Kaspersky Lab regarding an element of Absolute Software’s anti-theft software

Just 17 per cent of UK business leaders see cyber security as a major priority, compared to 41 per cent in the US, according to new research from BT. This comes from a survey of 500 IT decision makers in medium to large organizations across seven count…

Online file-sharing service Dropbox, like other cloud-based tech providers, has been allowed to disclose national security requests for user information for the first time. In its latest transparency report, it said that it fielded 249 or fewer nationa…

Anti-virus company Sophos has announced that it has acquired Cyberoam, a fellow player in the network security market that specializes in unified threat management (UTM) and security information and event management (SIEM).

Verizon has published its third report into the state of PCI DSS conformance drawn from an analysis of compliance assessments for more than 500 companies around the world. The result shows that compliance is improving, but that the majority of companie…

Much has been made of the connected car phenomenon, as more and more vehicles are now coming equipped with connections to cloud services for entertainment and monitoring via 4G or satellite connectivity. While this opens up a new cyber-front for hacker…

A Snowden-style finance whistleblower, who seems to have grown a conscience, has blown the whistle on Barclays bank for the loss and subsequent mis-use of 27,000 files of detailed personal data on customers and potential customers. Those files reached …

While launching a new cloud strategy, Imperva has simultaneously announced the acquisition of Skyfence (a cloud security start-up) and Tomium (a mainframe monitoring firm); and has agreed to buy the remaining shares in its majority owned subsidiary, In…

More details of the Target breach continue to be revealed, with the latest intel pointing to the air conditioning guys being used as an entry point by the hackers. The hackers came in through the vents, so to speak.

Earlier in the week, many consumers experienced a big spike in email spam volume – messages targeting containing financial malware that’s familiar from the not-too-distant past.