MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Ealing Council’s computer system was crippled by a virus after an infected memory stick was plugged into the IT resource. The council has been landed with a £500 000 bill to clean up the security mess that has resulted.

Research carried out by LV (formerly Liverpool & Victoria) Home Insurance claims that, over the last 12 months, eight million adults in the UK have given their cards – plus their PIN details – to someone else to make a purchase on their behalf or get c…

The US could end up with slower broadband speeds than the UK if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accepts submissions on the definition of broadband from US internet service providers (ISPs).

Microsoft will launch the latest version of its operating system for mobile devices next month.

The Home Office has denied that the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) will set up a database to collect and store the fingerprints of people who apply to work with children and vulnerable people.

In this week’s information security news: Trojan eavesdrops on Skype; Snow Leopard only recognizes two Trojans; private messages are sent to wrong recipients; search warrants are needed for digital data; and more…

Google has patched two serious security holes in its Javascript and XML engines, according to a blog post on the Google Chrome website.

Google has patched two serious security holes in its Javascript and XML engines, according to a blog post on the Google Chrome website.

Posting your address and then updates about when you are going on holiday onto social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is a gift to potential burglars, and a headache for insurers.

The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the UK foreign secretary to review the “lopsided” extradition treaty to prevent people like UFO hacker Gary McKinnon being “unfairly” removed from their home country to stand trial abroad.