MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

On Friday 11th October 2013, veterans, women in top security positions and the next generation of cyber defenders met at the home of British code-breaking, Bletchley Park.

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2013, incorporating, for the first time, Java, which was heretofore patched on a separate cycle every four months. The update is massive, fixing 120 flaws across most of Oracle’s product f…

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are getting harder to identify, and they will most likely be found to originate in Indonesia or China, new research has shown.

At the recent Hacker Halted conference in Atlanta, Infosecurity Editor Eleanor Dallaway, spoke to Twitter’s computer security researcher, Charlie Miller, also known for his public hacks on Apple products and his tenure at the NSA. They talked about mob…

Hackers are apparently stalking Kevin Mandia, chief executive of the cybersecurity company Mandiant.

Most people in the West haven’t heard of it, but Xunlei, a file-sharing service that boasts Google as an investor, has hundreds of millions of users in China. And, it was recently found to be distributing a signed malware known as KanKan.

LockLizard, a London-based provider of PDF document digital rights management (DRM) controls, is in the final stages of delivering a DRM secured viewer for the Android device marketplace.

A ransomware threat known as CryptoLocker is making the rounds, scrambling files in the process. And once it’s triggered, there is no way to recover them.

Google Chrome has been shown to have a major security flaw: any consumer who has ever typed in personal information while using the Google Chrome browser, be it for e-commerce or to sign up for newsletters, should be aware that this information is save…

Ah, the public hotspot: oases of connectivity in airports, coffee shops, bookstores, town centers and at chains that range from Starbucks to Barnes & Noble to McDonalds.