MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

“While this could be called ‘blackmail,’ we prefer to think of it as an ‘idiot tax’ for leaving confidential data unprotected on a Web server,” announces an unidentified hacker group in a news statement on Pastebin.

Google has updated its Chrome 18 web browser with fixes for five vulnerabilities, including three high-risk flaws.

Steganography is the science of hiding data. Its most common digital use is to hide data within graphics – text hidden in a picture. Al-Qaeda apparently hid documents within porn videos on a memory stick.

While the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20%, the number of malicious attacks continued to skyrocket by 81% in 2011, according to Symantec’s annual ‘Internet Security Threat Report’.

After being outed by security researcher Joxean Koret, Oracle has issued a fix for a zero-day database vulnerability that can be remotely exploited. It’s a flaw that was supposedly “fixed” in the company’s quarterly security update.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Aneurin Bevan Health Board in South Wales £70,000 for a “serious breach” of the Data Protection Act, the first National Health Service (NHS) organization to receive a data breach fine.

Home computer users do not, in general, pay for security. They rely instead on free software offered with little or no support. This can cause problems when different free products conflict with each other.

The studio behind the Star Trek Online game had its user account database breached over a year ago, but is only reporting it now.

BT conducted a survey of over 2000 IT users and decision makers across 11 countries. The research, released during last week’s Infosecurity Europe show in London, showed that Western European organizations tend to take a more guarded approach to BYOD i…

Columbia University has notified 3,000 faculty members that their names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers were available on the internet for two years.