MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Reports are coming in of an important arrest in connection with the now-infamous Zbot group of trojan malware.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has spent $45 million on information security for its classified computer network in the past eight years, but it is still inadequate, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

A gang of four men have been sentenced to 13 years in prison for their role in using the PSP2-BBB trojan to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK bank accounts.

Verbatim has taken the wraps off a Secure ExpressCard-based solid state drive (SSD) with onboard 256-bit hardware encryption.

PandaLabs, the malware labs division of Panda Security, has encountered a fake Facebook page designed to steal passwords from users of the social networking portal.

David Guyatt, one of the co-founders of MIMEsweeper, the IT security company acquired by Baltimore Technologies and later, Clearswift, has a new IT security company, Osirium.

Unified threat management firm Astaro is offering a free version of its UTM product, focusing on firewall functions and targeting SMBs.

Microsoft has discovered a zero-day denial of service vulnerability in the server message block (SMB) protocol used in Windows 7.

Sophos has warned internet users against buying Tamiflu online, the drug designed to help stop people getting infected by the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu.

The Zbot trojan – which typically distributes itself via emails pointing at or supplying an infected download – has been spotted targeting customers of the Verizon and Vodafone mobile phone networks on both sides of the Atlantic.