MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Danny Bradbury explores some of the more interesting stories in the security field from the last week.

Max Butler – aka Max Vision and Iceman – has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) wants more time to consider Oracle’s $7.4bn Sun deal before giving its approval.

The Pirate Bay – arguably one of the highest profile file-sharing indexing portals in the world – has hit the headlines with plans to launch a video streaming/sharing website ostensibly similar to Russian sites such as Movieberry.com

The Argentinian woman at the centre of the Mark Sanford scandal has said that her Hotmail account was hacked.

Interoute, the internet backbone carrier, has released a free ‘internet barometer’ desktop application that displays the state of the global internet, as well as potential threats to the net’s IP-based infrastructure.

Check out BrookCourt’s whitepaper on how the rise of identity and access management has revolutionised how the enterprise defines a key domain of IT risk control.

Spammers are using the death of music legend Michael Jackson to harvest unsuspecting computer users’ email addresses for future spam campaigns.

Google have launched Anti-Malvertising.com to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements. Finjan, specialising in secure web gateway products and unified web security for the enterprise market,have welcomed this …

A European-based gang behind sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks on small and medium enterprises has returned after a five-month break, says security firm iDefense.