MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

UK IT security and data protection firm Sophos has agreed to sell a majority interest in the company to global private equity group Apax Partners.

The US government has released further information about its plans to store every Twitter post ever produced, for perpetuity, in the Library of Congress.

IBM is considering cutting three-quarters of its 399,000 permanent staff in the next seven years and re-hiring them for projects as part of an HR strategy due to end in 2017.

Research just released suggests that the public sector’s move to green IT – which forms a central plank of many organisation’s IT security strategies when moving to cloud computing – is more of a myth than reality.

Things are not looking good for Terry Childs, the former San Francisco network administrator who compromised the city’s network and essentially held it to ransom. Childs was convicted of computer tampering this week, and now faces up to five years in j…

Security researchers have identified a new version of the Storm worm that plagued the internet three years ago. The new version uses HTTP for command-and-control purposes instead of the original peer-to-peer approach, say reports.

The FBI has promoted Gordon M. Snow as assistant director of its Cyber Division, saying that the bureau’s highest priority in the criminal sphere is combating cybercrime.

Israel has lifted a ban on imports of Apple’s iPad, which was imposed because authorities said the device’s Wi-Fi system was incompatible with Israel’s wireless standard.

Kaspersky Lab has announced it will be hosting an IT security student conference in Krakow, Poland, on May 23/24. The event – titled ‘IT Security for the Next Generation’ – forms part of the Kaspersky academy education programme.

Shoppers’ social networking service Blippy suffered a security flaw late last week, after some of its users’ credit card numbers began appearing in search results.