MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Shining a major spotlight on the importance of privacy, Skype has addressed a major vulnerability that allowed hackers to take over any Skype account, armed only with the user’s e-mail address. The flaw was being actively exploited in the wild for thre…

While global cybersecurity attention tends to be placed on headline-grabbing exploits by hacktivists and cyber-espionage activities, there is a much less high-profile but no less dangerous threat festering: Online fraud rings, bent on identity theft.

Further light on the hack of Neelie Kroes’ members of staff while attending an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) conference in Azerbaijan has emerged: Laptops that used a Baku hotel’s unsecured WiFi were affected.

To help IT auditors stay up to date with the latest organizational requirements, ISACA has published three new customizable IT audit/assurance programs. They cover cybercrime detection and prevention, the use of biometrics, e-commerce security, and the…

Cyber-trading and financial security systems can take a page from the nuclear industry, according to a new report from Foresight. While the report does not make policy recommendations, it defines fundamental questions that the authors believe should be…

World of Warcraft creator, Blizzard, has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit initiated by two gamers who feel that the company’s security policies are geared to be for-profit and “deceptive” in terms of users understanding just how secure – or ins…

Recently, it came to light that a new cyber-espionage APT dubbed XtremeRAT was targeting Israeli government and police entities. While not advanced, the threat is most certainly persistent: New analysis shows that the threat has been around much longer…

Torrent site what.cd reported on Friday, 9 November (via Twitter) that, “The site, tracker and IRC will be down while we sort out this DDOS…” As of writing (Monday, 12 November), the site is still down, with the finger being pointed at Zeiko.

Four of the six patch bulletins are rated ‘critical’, one is ‘important’ and one is ‘moderate’. Three of the updates will require a system restart, while the remaining three may require a restart. Admins should therefore be prepared for a disruptive ti…

As more companies turn to the cloud to provide redundancy and back-up services for mission-critical business functions, connectivity and applications, new research has revealed that a full 70% of cloud backup providers do not inform customers of where …