MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

If you’re a World Cup fan, then you had better be ultra-careful on which links you click through to, as it seems that cybercrminals are ramping up their malware and infected emails to tap into fan’s interest in the World Cup.

Irish businesses which lose the personal data of more than 100 people will soon be required to report the data security breach to their country’s data commissioner.

India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.

Reports from Japan are coming in that Olympus has been shipping one of its digital cameras – the Stylus Tough 6010 – with a virus infection on the unit’s internal memory card.

UK Apple users will be able to purchase the iPhone 4 from O2 from 24 June. The latest Apple smartphone offers multi-tasking and is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone in the world, with the highest resolution display ever built into a phone.

India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.

Reports from Japan are coming in that Olympus has been shipping one of its digital cameras – the Stylus Tough 6010 – with a virus infection on the unit’s internal memory card.

Research just published claims that one in 10 IT professionals have admitted to cheating on their IT audits, whilst a third of respondents also confessed to only auditing their firewall systems once every five years.

The latest monthly statistics on security threats from Sunbelt Software claim there has been a significant increase in Trojan activity, as well as malware designed to channel fake anti-virus products onto a user’s machine.

Wolfgang Kandek, the chief technology officer of Qualys, has warned Windows XP users that Microsoft’s technical support for service pack 2 (SP2) of the popular operating system will cease on July 13. As a result of this, he advises users to install XP …