MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The Department of Energy has slammed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for lax cybersecurity following the revelation last week that 69 computers are missing from the nuclear laboratory.

The ingenuity of malware distributors has reached new levels – of depths – depending on your point of view.

As more details of the Kaspersky web site hack came to light yesterday, the same hacking forum posted details of a similar SQL injection attack, this time on a Portugese reseller for anti-malware firm BitDefender.

FraudTip, a Web security portal, claims that an internet scam is defrauding around 71 000 travellers every month by the simple expedient of routing internet users to fraudulent versions of popular booking sites.

Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception.

Anti-malware vendor Kaspersky’s site was hacked over the weekend, using an SQL injection attack. While admitting that the site was vulnerable, Kaspersky is denying that the vulnerabiity was critical. The hacker nevertheless listed what he said was the …

The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.

On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due a widespread result of human error.

The annual report from IBM’s X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations.

On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due to a widespread result of human error.