MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

A Websense associate security researcher claims to have detected a black hat SEO attack on a web domain that belongs to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

US government networks received an average of 15,000 cyber attacks per day last year, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official.

Honda Canada said that a data breach exposed personal information of 283,000 customers.

With all the hype in the media these days surrounding the concept of cyber war, Infosecurity has put together a panel of experts to discuss this topic and more during our upcoming Global Virtual Conference.

Kaspersky Lab has issued a warning about a multi-purpose rootkit that targets 32- and 64-bit Windows users, one variant of which attempts to download and install fake antivirus software.

Reports are coming in that another Comodo digital certificate partner has suffered an SQL injection attack, reportedly allowing customer data to be viewed by the hackers.

Google’s Chrome operating system (OS) is not as secure at it might look at first glance, says Rik Ferguson, director of security research at Trend Micro.

The US Secret Service estimates that a data breach at Bank of America in California and other western states cost the bank at least $10 million.

A vulnerability in the Hotmail site has enabled hackers to steal an unknown number of messages from users’ accounts, according to security firm Trend Micro

There have been several reports of iPhones being successfully tracked down by owners using the handset’s on-phone GPS facility and suitable software, but now a cautionary tale comes from New Jersey, in which an apparently irate owner attacked the perso…