MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The FBI is warning about an increase in “drive-by” Reveton malware disguised as a message from law enforcement; it locks the computer and tries to extort money from the victim.

As the internet has learned, copyright holders can be insistent in protecting their legal rights. This now includes the London Olympic Organizing Committee (LOCOG), which has been surprisingly busy in issuing threats and warnings.

The Certification Authority/Browser Forum is a consortium of certification authorities and browser vendors co-founded by Entrust in 2005 to ensure the security of EV SSL certificates used on the internet. Now Entrust has withdrawn.

Obama’s election campaign has developed and publicly released an app called ‘Obama for America’. Its purpose is to help campaign volunteers shore up votes – and tout for donations – by locating local Democrats.

South Korea surged to first place, vaulting past China and Taiwan, in PandaLabs’ quarterly ranking of countries with the highest percentage of infected PCs.

Reuters has finally come clean on its hack – “a now closed vulnerability in the WordPress software” – but indicates that it is a small part of a widespread war of disinformation being waged between the two sides in Syria.

Microsoft has released to the public its internal attack surface analyzer tool, which catalogs changes made to an operating system attack surface by the installation of new software.

In a recent white paper, global IT association ISACA identified five hidden costs of cloud migration, including a number of security-related costs.

Yahoo is facing a class action lawsuit over last month’s data breach that resulted in around 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords being exposed online.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £175,000 on a health trust in Torquay, England, for publishing sensitive data on over 1,000 employees on its website.