MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due to a widespread result of human error.

ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, has developed a new business model for IT security.

If you’ve had a high company phone bill recently, spare a thought for Martin & Hillyer, a law firm in Burlington, Ontario.

Overclockers.co.uk (OCUK), an online computer hardware reseller firm, have announced they are placing a bounty of £10 000 on the heads of hackers behind a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their web site earlier in the month.

Here’s a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems – including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages – all went off line …

‘NASA hacker’ Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States.

According to his lawyer, Karen Todner, Gary McKinnon, who may be facing extradition after confessing to hacking into US military computers, was told yesterday that the UK High Court would delay his hearing until the director for public prosecutions had…

The UK government’s Infosec Training Paths and Competencies (ITPC) scheme is to transfer to the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) with effect from 1 April 2009.

Approximately one quarter of stalking or harassment cases in the US include an element of cyberstalking, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice statistics this week.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California are suing the FBI over computer searches conducted at two activist organizations’ offices.