MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Mac security firm Intego was the first to sound the alarm yesterday, calling the newly discovered trojan Backdoor:OSX/Crisis. Today Sophos issues its own warning about OSX/Morcut.A – which seems to be the same malware.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning that unauthorized charges on wireless phone bills, known as “cramming”, are becoming an increasingly serious problem for US consumers.

A physician’s unencrypted personal laptop that may have contained protected health information on 3,900 patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center was stolen, the hospital admitted Monday.

The latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries report from Sophos shows that Asia in general, and India in particular, is now responsible for the greatest volume of the world’s spam.

The social sharing site Pinterest has begun temporarily locking down accounts in an effort to combat an increase in suspected hacking on the site.

The Japanese Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had discovered 123 desktop computers that had been infected with a remote access trojan between January 2010 and November 2011.

Following the first ever loss reported by Microsoft last week – largely blamed on the purchase of aQuantive in 2007 – it is the purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 that is most concerning security folks.

Venafi has been extrapolating statistics from mobile phone loss – and expects the equivalent of 200 million books full of data will be lost during the course of the London Olympics.

The group NullCrew has claimed that it hacked into Yale University’s network and stole user names, passwords, social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of 1,200 students and staff.

Nearly three years ago, computers at the University of East Anglia were breached and thousands of confidential scientific documents, many skeptical that climate change is man-made, were stolen and subsequently leaked. The incident became known as Clima…