MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The fact that social networking portal has more than 500 million members attracts attacks like moths to a flame. Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson has seen an interesting new twist to phishing this week on the site.

Armed forces minister Nick Harvey is to expand on recent announcements on UK cyber defences in London today.

One of the websites operated by the Royal Navy was shut down yesterday, after a hacker called TinKode gained unauthorised access to the server using an SQL injection attack.

The latest monthly analysis of the malware landscape from Kaspersky Lab shows that the ZeuS trojan continued to strike, as it became one of the most commonly used and best-selling spy programmes on the online black market.

More than 30 people built Stuxnet worm, noted Brian Tillett, information security researcher at Symantec. Stuxnet has attacked a range of targets including Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is preparing to impose fines on companies that break provisions of the Data Protection Act later this month, the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has said.

A serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has effectively taken the country of Burma offline. The attack, which started on Tuesday, has reportedly clogged up the country’s main 45 Mbps internet feed, with DDoS packet rates of between 10 and…

A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.

The SpyEye trojan, which is competing for criminal “business” with Zeus, has seen a recent surge in activity, according to Lance James, a security researcher at Damballa.

A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.