MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

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.

EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, has announced that the .eu. element of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, is now one of the most secure in the world.

It looks like the summer security issues that plagued Adobe and its software users are continuing into September as Adobe has warned that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programmes.

Research just released claims that 46% of employees in the UK worked from home or remotely during the summer period and, says Gridsure, the sponsor of the survey, the research showed that remote working has become important in terms of job satisfaction…

Some UK letting and estate agents are failing to notify the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that they are handling people’s personal information.

The US has released a 537-page guide on how to protect the country’s electrical power grid from cyber attack.