MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

“Big data analytics can improve information security and increase cyber resilience” claims a new report from the Information Security Forum (ISF).

ENISA notes that nearly 18.5 million user passwords have been stolen in just seven major hacks this year already, and has published guidelines on how both users and service providers can better secure them in the future.

A new variant of the Morto worm has added a file infection capability to the malware’s arsenal of weapons, warned a Microsoft researcher.

South Korea’s National Police Agency (NPA) has arrested two hackers for stealing and selling personal information on 8.7 million KT mobile subscribers.

At Black Hat in Las Vegas, July 27 2012, Grayson Milbourne – director of threat research at Webroot – told Infosecurity that sometimes it is best if a breach goes undisclosed until the company concerned has answers and a recovery plan.

Apple’s new Mountain Lion operating system is now available – but with it comes a surprising new twist to the terms and conditions for the new dictation capability. Apple gets and keeps the dictated files.

A security researcher has developed proof of concept for a PC backdoor that is both undetectable and very difficult to remove – and capable of infecting more than 100 different motherboards.

In a deal unanimously agreed by the AuthenTec board, but not yet by its shareholders, Apple Inc is to buy the mobile security firm at a price valuing shares at $8.00 – a 58% premium on the earlier closing price.

Vasilis Pappas has won Microsoft’s $200,000 BlueHat defensive computer technology research prize for his kBouncer, an efficient and fully transparent return-oriented programming (ROP) mitigation technique.

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new air traffic control system could be vulnerable to cyber attack, warned researcher Andrei Costin at the Black Hat conference this week in Las Vegas.