MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

A Trend Micro vice president of cloud security has spotted plans by the US government to look at more innovative ways to control its IT resources, and makes the interesting observation that DARPA may even be looking at controlling the US Navy’s submari…

After mounting pressure and rising levels of criticism, Facebook has significantly revamped its privacy settings and, while the general response has been positive, some critics are less than enthusiastic.

An apparent slip-up by producers on a Chinese TV programme has revealed that the country’s military are using attackbot applications on their PCs to attack Western computer systems.

Steve Jobs has stepped down as Apple CEO after a second bout of medical leave since the start of the year.

Google has fixed 11 security flaws in its Chrome 13 browser, doling out $8,837 to researchers in the process, far short of its record $17,000 earlier this year.

A blunder by recruitment company Hays has revealed that some IT contractors at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) earn as much as £2000 per day.

Researchers with the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University claim to have spotted the first rookit malware – DroidKungFu – that affects Android devices.

The July security threats analysis from Eset claims that the infamous Win32/Conficker – along with INF/Autorun and in32/Sality – headed the top three malware chart for the month.

A leading security researcher is reporting that the suspected spammer behind the infamous Rustok spambot has had two of his luxury cars stolen by common street thieves.

Most savvy internet users will be familiar with the so-called 419 ‘forward fee’ scams from Nigeria – requesting a modest fee upfront in return for healthy funds transfers in the medium term that never materialise. But now a new twist on the scam has su…