MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

JanusNET – a leading IT security vendor in Australia – is in the process of setting up in the UK and Infosecurity managed to talk to the firm’s managing director Greg Colla late last month.

M86 Security is reporting a malicious spam campaign is now under way, fooling internet users into downloading an “attached statement” with a message that their credit card is overdue.

Trusteer, the web browser security specialist, is reporting a surge in the number of people’s computers infected with the Hiloti trojan. The firm says that, in the UK, infection rates have tripled in the last ten days.

Hackers are reported to have gained unauthorised access to a network of US defence industry news portals and downloaded sensitive user information that could be used in spear phishing and other types of targeted attacks.

A Symantec researcher claims to have discovered a new type of Android malware threat in the shape of class loading hijacking, which effectively means that hackers can remotely take over most, if not all, aspects of a smartphone or tablet computer.

The average cost of compliance associated with storing unstructured data is $2.1 million per year, according to a report prepared by the Ponemon Institute for software firm Novell.

If you mistakenly click on an infected link in an email, a lot can happen, but now a Symantec researcher has detailed – in some depth – what happens during a typical backdoor attack.

It seems that the last database upload on filesharing sites from the LulzSec hacktivist group – which publicly disbanded last weekend – was infected with malware.

The current operating system-based security model is not adequate to stop the proliferation of stealth crimeware, concludes a recent white paper by McAfee and Intel.

Today Google announced it will be adding new features to Gmail accounts in an effort to reduce the effectiveness of phishing emails.