MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

A loophole in Google Apps was remarkably simple, found by Indian blogger Saket Jajodia, and reported to and rapidly closed by Google. But getting recognition for the discovery was less easy.

The insider threat is generally acknowledged to be a serious threat to data security. For companies it can lead to the loss of IP; for governments, the loss of state secrets. Fog Computing is a new approach to detecting and preventing that threat.

Trend Micro has provided details on the Android threat: the volume of malware; the types of malware; specific families and what they do.

The police virus continues to evolve, from scareware to ransomware – and a new version that can be described as very scary ware.

The cost to protect US government secrets reached more than $11 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2011, up 12% from FY 2010 and more than double the cost in FY 2001, according to a report by the National Archives.

Global defense organizations are expected to increase their cybersecurity budgets by an average of 6% over the next 12 months, according to a report by ICD Research and Strategic Defence Intelligence.

Computers in India’s primary eastern seafront naval establishment at Visakhapatnam were reportedly infected with spyware that sent classified information to IP addresses in China.

Along with the benefits that can be gained from Big Data come attendant security risks, notes Savvis’ Ed Moyle.

The attack surface in Windows 8 is bigger than in Windows 7 because of new components and changed processes, especially with the Metro interface, warns a McAfee researcher.

As if there aren’t already enough banking trojans to worry about, with SpyEye and Zeus, Carberp and OddJob, ESET is now warning that Gataka (aka Tatanga) – another man-in-the-browser trojan – appears ready for take-off.