MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Bitcoinica is a UK-based online trading site for the online cash alternative ‘bitcoin’. Following its second hack, Bitcoinica was taken offline and will remain off-line until a ‘transitional’ period designed to improve security is complete.

Kaspersky Lab is asking for help from the information security community to decrypt the mysterious Gauss’ encrypted warhead suspected of targeting industrial control systems.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data.

Commtouch has detected a series of recent attacks that contain emails promising great Groupon “deals”, but deliver malware instead.

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act is used by public bodies, including the police, to obtain phone and text information on customers from telecoms companies. It was originally designed to help combat terrorism and serious crime.

MIT’s Technology Review says that Apple’s iPhone and iTab security has improved to the extent that, if used correctly, it can prove unbreakable even to law enforcement.

The Citadel trojan is best known for its recent delivery of the Reveton ransomware. Now Trusteer has discovered a Citadel-based man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack aimed against VPN-using employees at a major international airport.

Oracle is warning customers about a privilege escalation vulnerability in its Oracle Database Server that could enable an attacker to gain control of the affected server.

Defense contractor MacAuley-Brown (MacB) has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide cybersecurity to the US Air Force (USAF).

Christopher Mark Doyon, AKA Commander X, is the voice of the Peoples Liberation Front, and a high-profile and respected voice within Anonymous. He has now publicly debunked the idea of Anonymous 2.