MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Music website Last.fm joins the growing list of websites that have had their customers’ passwords exposed on the internet this week.

Over the next few years, health records in the UK will become largely digital. Andrew Lansley’s new NHS Information Strategy offers both huge benefits and serious dangers for the future of the NHS/patient relationship.

Freshshop, the site set up and run by Jay Moore (aka t0pp8uzz) was a one-stop card fraud shop. Now Moore and his money-mule helper and co-conspirator Damian Horne (aka GM) have been jailed following an investigation by the UK Serious Organized Crime Ag…

Online dating site eHarmony joins LinkedIn as the latest social networking site to be hacked, admitting to a breach that may have exposed 1.5 million user passwords.

Bowing to pressure from users of the CS5 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe has issued free security patches to plug critical flaws in the software that could enable an attack to take control of a vulnerable system.

While the in-depth analysis of Flame continues, and we learn more and more about its intricacies and capabilities, one question remains: why did the AV industry fail to spot it earlier?

In an unprecedented move at openness, Apple has issued a document on iOS security that provides details on the system architecture, encryption and data protection, network security features, and device access for iOS devices.

Facebook has improved the protections for page administrators by enabling them to assign lower admin rights, which helps prevent page hijacking.

Chrome v19 introduced a ‘tab sync’. This in turn, claims Imperva, introduces a new threat vector for business – a threat Imperva terms BYOB (bring your own browser).

On 17 May, security researcher Barry Shteiman released Hulk (HTTP unbearable load king). It is, as its name suggests, a denial-of-service (DoS) tool that operates by sending an unbearable load of HTTP requests to the target web server, overloading it a…