MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Following the first ever loss reported by Microsoft last week – largely blamed on the purchase of aQuantive in 2007 – it is the purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 that is most concerning security folks.

Venafi has been extrapolating statistics from mobile phone loss – and expects the equivalent of 200 million books full of data will be lost during the course of the London Olympics.

The group NullCrew has claimed that it hacked into Yale University’s network and stole user names, passwords, social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of 1,200 students and staff.

Nearly three years ago, computers at the University of East Anglia were breached and thousands of confidential scientific documents, many skeptical that climate change is man-made, were stolen and subsequently leaked. The incident became known as Clima…

Space Rogue is a graduate of L0pht Heavy Industries – one of the original and best of the old-school hacking groups. He knows a bit about hacking, hacking events – and those that never happened.

The electricity industry has failed to consistently include cybersecurity features in the deployment of smart grid systems, and jurisdictional disputes have stymied government action, judged the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Researchers have discovered new phishing campaigns targeted against online gamers: Trend Micro citing WOW: Mists of Pandaria, and GFI Software citing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle, the researchers who worked with the Washington Post to uncover security gaps in Tridium’s Niagara Framework, said that Tridium has been “unresponsive” to fixing the flaws.

Cisco announced yesterday that it had completed the acquisition of a little known privately held company that develops security for cloud and virtualized environments.

First State Bank in Kansas opened two new mortgage offices, and recruited staff from Pulaski Bank – but Pulaski claims that staff wasn’t all they took.