MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Tibetan organizations are under attack from Chinese spear phishers who were also behind the Nitro attacks that targeted Western chemical and defense firms last year, according to research by AlienVault.

The Hydraq trojan, which wreaked havoc during the Operation Aurora attacks in 2009, is back. Actually, it never went away, note Symantec researchers.

On 6 February hacktivist group Anonymous delivered a threatening email to Bashar Assad’s personal email account. On 7 February his use of that account ceased.

Consumers are taking privacy and security into account more often when making purchasing decisions, would consider leaving companies in the wake of a data breach incident, and measure corporate reputation based on these issues, according to a survey by…

Mozilla has fixed eight vulnerabilities, a majority of them “critical”, with the release of the latest version of its web browser, Firefox 11.

The Dutch Big Brother Awards for 2011 have been announced. There are three prize categories: People, Companies and Government.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is fining Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee $1.5 million related to the 2009 theft of 57 unencrypted computer hard drives containing protected health information on over one million patients.

The Tolly Group has published a new report: ‘Comparison of Bit9 Advanced Threat Solution versus McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite and Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1’. But are they apples and oranges?

New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which provides personal injury insurance to New Zealand residents, admitted that a spreadsheet containing 9,000 claims with personal details on 6,000 individuals was inadvertently sent to a client.

SafeNet buys Cryptocard to offer the best of both worlds (local and cloud) in user authentication.