MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries report from Sophos shows that Asia in general, and India in particular, is now responsible for the greatest volume of the world’s spam.

The social sharing site Pinterest has begun temporarily locking down accounts in an effort to combat an increase in suspected hacking on the site.

The Japanese Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had discovered 123 desktop computers that had been infected with a remote access trojan between January 2010 and November 2011.

Following the first ever loss reported by Microsoft last week – largely blamed on the purchase of aQuantive in 2007 – it is the purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 that is most concerning security folks.

Venafi has been extrapolating statistics from mobile phone loss – and expects the equivalent of 200 million books full of data will be lost during the course of the London Olympics.

The group NullCrew has claimed that it hacked into Yale University’s network and stole user names, passwords, social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of 1,200 students and staff.

Nearly three years ago, computers at the University of East Anglia were breached and thousands of confidential scientific documents, many skeptical that climate change is man-made, were stolen and subsequently leaked. The incident became known as Clima…

Space Rogue is a graduate of L0pht Heavy Industries – one of the original and best of the old-school hacking groups. He knows a bit about hacking, hacking events – and those that never happened.

The electricity industry has failed to consistently include cybersecurity features in the deployment of smart grid systems, and jurisdictional disputes have stymied government action, judged the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Researchers have discovered new phishing campaigns targeted against online gamers: Trend Micro citing WOW: Mists of Pandaria, and GFI Software citing Star Wars: The Old Republic.