MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Takedowns, Tools, Threats, and Tsk, Tsk! We review the week’s information security news.

DeviceLock, the endpoint security specialist, has announced that the Gazpromneft-Khantos branch of Gazprom Neft, the high-profile Russian oil company, has selected its software for endpoint security.

Popular websites have been made to serve up malware via malicious advertising delivered by advertising banner services.

The New York Times has admitted it has been the victim of a complex scam, in which a group of hackers purchased ad space on the famous publisher’s website, then posed as internet telephony company Vonage, to infect users with malware.

Websense Security Labs has found a spam operation targeting players of the old game favourite, Monopoly, via social networking methods.

MI5 has hired a batch of Asian teenage computer hackers to help fight cyberterrorism in China, Russia and Pakistan.

Printer company Canon has unveiled a printer that can automatically protect the data in copied documents. The Canon ImageRunner Advance printer, targeted at medium to large enterprises, features Scan Lock, a system which superimposes a watermark on cop…

After beta testing the service amongst a select number of its users since the start of the year, Paypal has rolled out a text message security check system for its electronic cash and payment service.

Interpol, the international police agency, has announced that the EDAPS consortium has been chosen to design and produce the secure electronic passport.

Two experiments conducted at MIT are raising questions about the level of privacy among those who use modern tools such as mobile phones and social networks – and suggesting that there is even less of it than most of us already thought.