MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Worlwide IT spending could fall 6% to US$3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Connecticut-based IT research and advisory company Gartner.

The CEO of a virtual gaming bank within the space trading game EVE Online, has run off with 200bn of virtual credits trading them in for real world cash of £3115 (US$5100) through the black market.

UK telecoms giant BT has secured a prestigious deal to provide officers and staff at London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with new identity and access management services

Data leakage – one of the IT security hot topics of the moment – is on the agenda of a joint Cyber-Ark/Websense webinar being broadcast live at 3pm today, and available via the Infosecurity web site on a recorded basis after that time.

Danny Bradbury explores some of the more interesting stories in the security field from the last week.

Max Butler – aka Max Vision and Iceman – has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) wants more time to consider Oracle’s $7.4bn Sun deal before giving its approval.

The Pirate Bay – arguably one of the highest profile file-sharing indexing portals in the world – has hit the headlines with plans to launch a video streaming/sharing website ostensibly similar to Russian sites such as Movieberry.com

The Argentinian woman at the centre of the Mark Sanford scandal has said that her Hotmail account was hacked.

Interoute, the internet backbone carrier, has released a free ‘internet barometer’ desktop application that displays the state of the global internet, as well as potential threats to the net’s IP-based infrastructure.