MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The Conservative party is to reveal plans to cut NHS IT spending by scrapping the government’s planned central database for medical records.

Fibre optic networks are not secure enough to transmit information that has not been encrypted, according to a recent report from IDC Research.

A study just released by ABI Research predicts a period of healthy growth for managed wireless security solutions, with growth averaging 27% a year for the period 2008 to 2014.

The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.

Despite 30% of IT security companies increasing their investments in IT this year, fewer than half have a shared understanding of IT value across the enterprise and two-thirds fail to fully measure it, according to ISACA.

Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies – the unified threat management (USM) security vendor – has announced plans to buy privately-held BorderWare Technology, which employs around 90 staff, for an undisclosed sum.

Hard on the heels of researchers at last week’s Black Hat security briefings showing how easy it is to recover third party passwords on Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Office Online services, Andy Cordial, Origin Storage’s managing director, said that thi…

It now seems that the hacking of the servers of the SquirrelMail open-source email project in late June may have been worse than originally reported.

Arbor Networks has published internet bandwidth usage figures from June and July that make fascinating reading if you ever wondered how less democratic governments such as Iran filters and blocks internet traffic for their citizens.

Researchers have been busy over the last few days tracing where the Zeus botnet is being controlled from, following investigations by the University of Alabama in the US, which tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circul…