MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

In today’s world, everything from refrigerators to cars are beginning to get “connected” and given the ability to talk to you and to other things via broadband networks. Much of this still seems like science fiction, but when it comes to connected TVs,…

The Guardian newspaper has exposed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ‘top secret’ order requiring Verizon to provide the NSA with all ‘telephony metadata’ for communications within the USA and between the USA and abroad.

Secunia, the Copenhagen-based provider of security software, announced the appointment of Microsoft’s Peter Colsted as the firm’s new chief executive.

The Ponemon Institute today released the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis which reveals data breaches are often the result of poor processes, and the latest study from Ponemon Institute bears this out: Human errors and system problems ca…

A new survey outlines the practical experience of IT/security professionals over the increasing use of personal devices within their business environment during the last 12 months.

For commercial software coders looking to thwart cybercriminals, finding and fixing vulnerabilities is all well and good. In reality, though, that approach to product security can be a colossal waste of time and resources, according to Adobe’s Brad Ark…

As the government continues to mull regulations on cybersecurity info-sharing, a survey shows that a majority of Americans (82.1%) are concerned about a data breach involving at least one of five organization types. However, they’re evenly mixed on whe…

The malware behind a widespread cyber-espionage campaign against political and critical industry targets has been called out: NetTraveler, a malicious program used for covert computer surveillance, has successfully compromised at least 350 high-profile…

ARM, the British chip manufacturer that dominates the world’s smartphones, is making it more attractive for high-value video content producers (Hollywood studios) to make HD films available on smartphones.

Security researchers have discovered a new phishing website ‘under construction’; one designed to take advantage of rapidly growing iOS7-mania.