MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.

The Identify Theft Council, a recently launched consortium of businesses, community groups, and law enforcement based in San Francisco, is proposing a “Neighborhood Watch” program for identity theft modeled on the programs designed to reduce neighborho…

Black Hat Abu Dhabi takes place at the Emirates Palace on November 8/11.

A man arrested in Armenia last week in connection with the operation of the BredoLab botnet – which the Dutch authorities recently shut down – has been revealed to be a major affiliate of the Spamit.com group.

Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country’s mission-critical systems in the next two years, but are not well prepared for it, a study has revealed.

The overall risk on the web is rising, with 6.2% of the 27 million websites surveyed by McAfee posing a security risk in 2010, up from 5.8% of the websites surveyed last year, according to the security firm’s Mapping the Mal Web report.

Last month’s spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site’s members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.

Reports that the Avalanche gang, now the world’s most prolific phishing group, have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan, is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated,…

Targeted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec’s latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.

Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec’s latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.