MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Reports are coming in that the Iraqi resistance group claiming to be behind the `here you have’ malware may be located in Spain, as a video posted on YouTube, from the profile of a 26-year-old apparently living in Spain, is claiming the cyberattack com…

Adobe has announced it will release security patches for the latest zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in its Reader and Acrobat products.

UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.

European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.

Money mule soliciting has always been associated with the less tech-savvy amongst the internet user base, mainly on the basis that such programmes prey on the greedy and gullible, but now it seems that soliciting is getting very professional.

Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.

A hacker who claims to be behind the “Here you have” email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.

The Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and th…

Attacks on third-party applications have become a major threat to enterprise information security, says security firm NGS Secure of the NCC Group.

Last night the Global Risk Register – a non-profit organisation seeking to improve the risk management of businesses – was launched in at a special event in the London Cabinet War Rooms.