MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Hard on the heels of its linkup with the WiFi Alliance last week, the ZigBee Alliance has announced plans to dramatically increase its presence in Europe, with the intention of meeting the European Union’s ‘smart grid’ country programmes.

It with regret that Infosecurity has to report the unexpected death of Andrew Strong, global information security and compliance director with Unilever.

A security expert at Sophos has unveiled fake antivirus software targeting the new Windows 7 operating system.

Google has taken the wraps off an automatic web application security scanner called Skipfish, which it says will work on a number of existing web applications and check them for their levels of security.

In an effort to fix what they called a “badly broken” immigration system in the US, two senators have proposed the use of biometric Social Security cards for all workers.

Google has launched a security tool called skipfish, designed to help web developers scan their applications for vulnerabilities.

Google has launched a security tool called skipfish, designed to help web developers scan their applications for vulnerabilities.

Network Box USA has announced a change in the way that it sells unified threat management appliances. It is switching to a managed service model, and is no longer charging for its hardware.

A study just published claims to show that, although 78% of children knowing that hacking it is wrong, one in four of them have tried hacking into other people’s Facebook accounts.

Facebook is to set up a non-profit foundation to promote and develop the online privacy movement under a legal settlement reached this week.