MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

With an eye toward tackling the cybersecurity workforce skills shortage, the University of Phoenix and the (ISC)² Foundation are teaming up to offer nine full-tuition scholarships for individuals looking to devote themselves to information security.

Bad piggies may need to be toppled, but fans of the ubiquitous Angry Birds mobile app should be aware that the popular game collects and shares players’ personal information much more widely than most people realize.

“Shadowy hacker underworld.” “Dark Web.” “Underground cyber-forum.” These are the phrases that get bandied about referring to those dark corners of the internet where cybercriminals publish their malware, espionage campaigns are hatched and hacktivist …

For the first time, NTT has pooled the resources of its group companies and produced a threat report based on an analysis of 3 billion attacks. What it found is that while attackers move faster than defenders, and there are still many basic processes a…

First the NHS was forced to delay its care.data project (storage of all patient GP health data in a central data warehouse) for six months; then it was learned that PA Consulting had obtained 27 DVDs of hospital event statistics (HES) and uploaded them…

Stingray is a US law enforcement spoof cell tower used to track the location of mobile phones. Snoopy is a project conducted by London-based Sensepost Research Labs that does similar and much more with any WIFI-enabled device. Now Snoopy has gone airbo…

EC3, the cyber branch of Europol, has dismantled a Polish gang involved in online auction fraud. The gang would offer electronic items such as Apple computers, but deliver anything from a brick to items of fruit and vegetables. The scam involved Ebay a…

Following a nationwide ban on Twitter last week, thousands of internet denizens have been working successfully to get around the moratorium. Now, Turkey has taken steps to thwart circumvention efforts that will result in IP address filtering – but it c…

In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations and allegations that top ISPs and tech companies were complicit in the mass surveillance of the American people by the NSA, there has been an avalanche of transparency reports detailing law enforcement reques…

At the RSA conference 2014 in San Francisco, Tim Rains, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, spoke to Infosecurity editor Eleanor Dallaway about the security threat landscape in the Middle East.