MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Vietnamese speakers have been targeted in an attack that researchers are describing as politically motivated.

Malware adaptation rates are getting faster, according to a report from Blue Coat Systems. The average lifespan of malware dropped to two hours last year, from up to seven hours in 2007, it said, adding that this has had a significant effect on the eff…

The European Union (EU) has launched an ambitious project that seeks to deal with all aspects of technology privacy for citizens of its member countries.

Security software company Codenomicon has released a network analysis tool that lets administrators visualize network traffic.

Records from the city council’s social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it …

Legislation that seeks to protect the nation’s electricity grid from any form of attack has been passed by the Energy and Environment Subcommittee.

Research just released by Symantec claims to show that targeted attacks are on the rise, with email originating from China and RAR attachments being a major source of security problems.

A self-confessed computer hacker who pleaded guilty to some of the most serious card account hacking and ID frauds in US history, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Convicted criminal mastermind Albert Gonzalez – the man behind the infamous hack of TJX’s computer systems and more than 130 million payment cards – has been jailed for 20 years.

In an interesting analysis of the migration of local systems to the cloud, and the transition from desktop to laptops, netbooks and mobiles, Justin Foster, a software architect with Trend Micro, says that an unexpected transformation is taking place at…