MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users’ files during play. Lose/Lose warns ‘victims’ that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, a…

Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users’ hard drive.

Cisco, EMC – the parent company to RSA Security – and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.

Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.

Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.

The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s – and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years – is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa’s operation there has announced.

IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server

M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86’s payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.

The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.

Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft’s support site.