MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

AlienVault, a San Mateo, Calif.-based security information and event management (SIEM) provider, has received $22.4 million in funding from a venture capital group led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Sigma.

The high tech theft of motor vehicles is likely to rise as their computer content increases. In an early case, Alan Watkins was last week jailed for car theft that involved hacking, GPS tracking and motor car identity theft.

Symantec researchers have determined that the Milicenso trojan (also known as the Printer Bomb) is downloaded by an .htaccess redirection web attack that has infected at least 4,000 websites.

A disturbing 93% of IT security professionals believe that data breaches will increase this year, according to nCircle’s 2012 Information Security and Compliance Trend study.

The EU’s cybersecurity agency is recommending that banks should assume that all customers’ PCs are infected and institute security measures based on that assumption.

A loophole in Google Apps was remarkably simple, found by Indian blogger Saket Jajodia, and reported to and rapidly closed by Google. But getting recognition for the discovery was less easy.

The insider threat is generally acknowledged to be a serious threat to data security. For companies it can lead to the loss of IP; for governments, the loss of state secrets. Fog Computing is a new approach to detecting and preventing that threat.

Trend Micro has provided details on the Android threat: the volume of malware; the types of malware; specific families and what they do.

The police virus continues to evolve, from scareware to ransomware – and a new version that can be described as very scary ware.

The cost to protect US government secrets reached more than $11 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2011, up 12% from FY 2010 and more than double the cost in FY 2001, according to a report by the National Archives.