MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The act of ATM Card skimming and shoulder surfing – used by criminals the world over to create cloned cards from users of bank cash machines – has entered a new dimension.

A mixture of private sector and congressional witnesses slammed the US for a lack of cohesion in its cyber security stance this week, calling for better leadership in the defense of the country’s “cyber turf”.

The security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google’s online word processing service – Google Docs – may have shared their data with unauthorised users.

The security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google’s online word processing service – Google Docs – may have shared their data with unauthorised users.

Seasoned penetration testers and security experts will recall that L0phtCrack, a seriously heavy-duty password testing utility, was quietly withdrawn by Symantec in 2006, after the IT security vendor reportedly became worried about export regulations o…

Google is challenging the cracking community to rip apart its ActiveX alternative called Google Native Client.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that 33 public sector workers across 30 local authorities have accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) “without business justification”.

Against a backdrop of the increasing use of internet telephony (aka voice over IP) by criminals as a way of avoiding wiretaps, the European Union has thrown its weight behind research into how to monitor internet telephony calls on a cost-effective basis.

Social networking giant Facebook has back-tracked on a controversial decision to retain users’ information, even when they close their accounts.

Romanian hackers are reported to be targeting the web sites of several IT security vendors.