MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Yahoo is facing a class action lawsuit over last month’s data breach that resulted in around 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords being exposed online.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £175,000 on a health trust in Torquay, England, for publishing sensitive data on over 1,000 employees on its website.

Statewatch, an independent organization that keeps an eye on civil liberties in the EU, has released a leaked copy of European nations’ initial response to the proposed new Data Protection Regulation.

A French T-shirt company that trademarked the Anonymous headless man logo and ‘expect us’ wording has closed shop in fear of reprisals.

There are two main factions within Anonymous: the anarchist and the hacktivist. One believes in no rules; the other takes a moral view of its responsibility to society. One of them handed over the Red Sky hacker.

The Senate failed on Thursday to pass the Cybersecurity Act (S 3414) despite months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans and significant modifications of the legislation.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is delaying the removal of social security numbers (SSNs) from Medicare cards, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) told a House panel this week.

Hundreds of Madison County (Illinois) court documents containing personal information on victims involved in protection order cases were recently left in a public recycling bin behind the county’s Wood River facilities.

Google has shipped version 21 of its Chrome browser, fixing 15 bugs in the process.

Cybersecurity incidents involving US federal computer systems increased 20% last year, according to statistics released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).