MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The inevitable H1N1 flu trojan attacks have started. Yesterday, McAfee detected a new H1N1-related spam campaign, spoofing emails from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and asking victims to fill out a ‘vaccination profile’ as part of a state-wide f…

Anti-malware firm Prevx has apologized to Microsoft after admitting that the ‘black screen of death’ – a condition that renders Windows unusable after bootup – was not caused by faulty system patches after all.

Infosecurity reports on the past week’s news

Reports are coming in that a set of security patches for Windows XP, Vista and 7 may be causing problems for large numbers of PC users.

Reports are coming in that hackers and malware authors have latched on to the weekend reports about golfing legend Tiger Woods being involved in a car accident close to his home.

Bit.ly the URL shortening service – which has been quietly overtaking Tiny.url, the industry first URL shortening service, over the last year – has stolen another march by adding security facilities.

After several weeks of rumour, IBM is reported to be acquiring Guardium, the enterprise database security specialist, for $225 million.

Botnet machines are being used as password crackers, according to data released by Microsoft on Friday.

News that the author of the first iPhone worm – Ikee – which hit tens of thousands of Australian iPhone users a few weeks ago – has been met with consternation by the IT security industry.

Research just published by Frost & Sullivan claims to show that the security credential convergence market is being driven by the use of smart cards for both physical and logical access, video content analysis for the automation of emergency procedures…