MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

By visiting social media sites, smartphone users are exposing themselves to security risks, warned Avi Chesla, vice president of security at Radware.

Opera has fixed five security vulnerabilities, including one considered critical, in the latest version of its web browser.

Hackers broke into the computer system at a New Jersey school district and gained access to student records system used by 160 schools across the state.

In the face of ongoing criticism about the social network’s security efforts, Facebook has taken the wraps off two new security features – SSL connections and social authentication.

In a supremely ironic situation, especially given the recent furor over the social networking site’s privacy rules, it looks as though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page on the portal was ‘hacked’ yesterday evening.

Vodafone’s Australian operation is reported to have tracked down the source of a data leak, which caused uproar amongst its users. The source now appears to be one of its cellular dealers.

It’s been a while since the loosely-grouped Anonymous hacking group caused a sensation by organising a series of DDoS attacks against a number of high profile financial sites linked with snubbing WikiLeaks.

Oracle has released a staggering 66 new fixes across 28 product lines in its January 2011 security advisory.

Research in Motion (RIM) will introduce partitioning software on its BlackBerry smartphone devices to allow users to separate personal and corporate data.

Dozens of military, government and education websites have been hacked and are up for sale, according to researchers from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII).