MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

During June, Google researchers seeking to strengthen the security posture of the embedded PDF reader for Chrome discovered numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Most of these were patched in this week’s Adobe security update – but not for Linux.

After more than a week of persistent DDoS attack by Anti Leaks, WikiLeaks is now available again, courtesy, it says, of increased capacity and CloudFlare protection.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted by Sweden (definitely) and the US (probably) is inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum. Today, Thursday 16 August, is the day that Ecuador has said it will announce its decision.

Security vendor Prolexic has turned the tables on cybercriminals and exposed a vulnerability in the Dirt Jumper toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate networks.

Bitcoinica is a UK-based online trading site for the online cash alternative ‘bitcoin’. Following its second hack, Bitcoinica was taken offline and will remain off-line until a ‘transitional’ period designed to improve security is complete.

Kaspersky Lab is asking for help from the information security community to decrypt the mysterious Gauss’ encrypted warhead suspected of targeting industrial control systems.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data.

Commtouch has detected a series of recent attacks that contain emails promising great Groupon “deals”, but deliver malware instead.

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act is used by public bodies, including the police, to obtain phone and text information on customers from telecoms companies. It was originally designed to help combat terrorism and serious crime.

MIT’s Technology Review says that Apple’s iPhone and iTab security has improved to the extent that, if used correctly, it can prove unbreakable even to law enforcement.