MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular cloud storage service, used by business to store static files, and by individuals to share them. Storage can be either public or private; but new research suggests that public is possibly more public th…

Spamhaus, an IP blacklisting service, has been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for a week. Attack traffic has been rated at up to 300Gbps – three times higher than the previous record, and six times greater than the typical attack r…

Java vulnerabilities are seemingly ubiquitous, with vulnerabilities and zero-days nabbing headlines on what seems like a weekly basis. According to an analysis, that perception cleaves fairly close to reality: 94% of endpoints are vulnerable to at leas…

An internet pedophile has been jailed at the Inner London Crown Court for eight years after using social networks for grooming and encryption to hide his offenses. Because of the encryption, the police can only guess at other crimes.

Slovenian Police have detained five citizens in a $2.5 million, highly targeted bank fraud campaign. The criminal group was found to be using 25 money mules to electronically transfer funds out of the accounts of smaller companies.

A new report published in Nature’s Scientific Reports section shows how the location data available from mobile devices can be used as a virtual fingerprint to identify individual people regardless of whether the data is ‘anonymized’.

The UK Ministry of Justice has issued a new consultation paper aimed at NHS data controllers asking for views on whether the ICO should be able to impose a data protection audit on NHS bodies without their consent.

Pirated software may carry an ostensibly small price tag compared to the real thing, but it often also carries something else: ride-along malware that will cost consumers 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion this year in identifying, repairing and recover…

The next evolution of credit card payment details extraction has hit Russian underground hacking forums in the form of the vSkimmer malware, a botnet that directly targets card payment terminals using Windows.

This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.