MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…

Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…

The issue of hacked WordPress sites continues to persist, as evidenced by one victimized URL being used to host links to thousands if not millions or billions of shady pharmaceutical sites without the knowledge of the owners.

Eleven Microsoft bulletins including ten critical vulnerabilities – some of which are already being actively exploited – affecting all supported versions of Windows, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync make for a busy last month of a busy year (106 …

The old adage of “if it’s too good to be true that it usually is,” continues to hold water. An elaborate social engineering lure using the Affordable Care Act as bait is unfolding, with the end goal of serving up an executable file containing malware.

Ahead of the G20 summit in Russia in late summer, a group of perpetrators (who may be Chinese) carried out a targeted attack on diplomatic missions, including ministries of foreign affairs (MFA), using the crisis in Syria as social engineering bait.

SSL certificates are designed to provide trust in the internet. They are issued by trusted Certificate Authorities to prove that a site is indeed the site it claims to be. But if a certificate is forged, lost, or improperly issued, it provides false tr…

Online gamers use false names and characters to meet, chat and interact with other people from all over the world anonymously. NSA and GCHQ began to suspect that criminals and terrorists were using these virtual worlds, such as World of Warcraft, XBox …

Whether hackers are able to remotely switch on victims’ webcams without the camera light giving the game away has been the subject of some debate. Now we learn that not only can it be done, it is done by the FBI.

Two months after European justice ministers agreed the principle of the ‘one-stop-shop’ for data protection rulings, Hubert Legal (head of legal services for the European Council; that is, the member states) declared it would be a bad outcome likely in…