MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

At least three dozen members of the Atlanta police force provided personal information to scammers who posed as agents selling insurance benefits.

NASA’s inspector general (IG) is criticizing the space agency for not being ready to combat advanced persistent threats (APTs).

Despite the perception that bring your own device (BYOD) saves organizations money, more than two-thirds of IT professionals believe it increases costs, primarily due to the added security risks and measures required, according to a survey by Lieberman…

During June, Google researchers seeking to strengthen the security posture of the embedded PDF reader for Chrome discovered numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Most of these were patched in this week’s Adobe security update – but not for Linux.

After more than a week of persistent DDoS attack by Anti Leaks, WikiLeaks is now available again, courtesy, it says, of increased capacity and CloudFlare protection.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted by Sweden (definitely) and the US (probably) is inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum. Today, Thursday 16 August, is the day that Ecuador has said it will announce its decision.

Security vendor Prolexic has turned the tables on cybercriminals and exposed a vulnerability in the Dirt Jumper toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate networks.

Bitcoinica is a UK-based online trading site for the online cash alternative ‘bitcoin’. Following its second hack, Bitcoinica was taken offline and will remain off-line until a ‘transitional’ period designed to improve security is complete.

Kaspersky Lab is asking for help from the information security community to decrypt the mysterious Gauss’ encrypted warhead suspected of targeting industrial control systems.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data.