MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Security software provider, Sunbelt Software, has reported a top 10 list of last month’s most frequent malware threats. Trojan horse files are considered to be the most dangerous. The top entry on the list; Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT made up almost a qua…

Researchers have formulated a way to identify cheating in online games in a discovery that could revolutionize the growing market for virtual gaming assets.

McAfee has announced a service to help get SMBs up to speed with their security needs. Security Quickstart Services specifically targets small to medium-sized businesses, providing help with implementing, maintaining and optimizing security best practi…

Internet Explorer 8 is now the world’s most-used browser, according to the latest figures from Network Applications.

An anonymous researcher has posted a proof-of-concept attack that fakes a trusted root certificate on the iPhone. Researchers have confirmed that the attack works, making it possible for anyone to create a web page that is deemed to be trusted by Apple.

Websites for 49 members of the US House of Representatives were hacked shortly after President Obama’s State of the Union address last Wednesday night. The attacks appear to have been carried out by the Red Eye Crew according to researchers at security…

International research just published claims to show that a growing number of organisations are having to invest heavily in IT systems in order to comply with data management requirements.

A new tool released by privacy advocacy group EFF is designed to help users find out how identifiable their web browsers are online.

Facebook was plagued by security and privacy issues both real and imagined in the last week, as a real-life worm battled with an imaginary one in a competition to see which could petrify the service’s users the most.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has lost the personal records of 77 000 former and current public employees of the state of Alaska, it emerged this week.