MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Websites using the popular content management system Joomla are at risk of being hijacked for use in malware payload and phishing attacks, thanks to the discovery of a fresh vulnerability and accompanying zero-day attack.

Remember when President Obama had to get a special, encrypted version of his BlackBerry in order to continue using a smartphone post-election? It’s taken the US Department of Defense (DoD) about five years since then to support anything but restricted …

Just as Bitcoin warns its users that Android-based bitcoin wallets are vulnerable to theft, so the New York Department of Financial Services subpoenas 22 digital currency companies and investors, and investigates the regulatory guidelines that should b…

Following what the Greater Manchester police described as their largest ever cybercrime investigation, two polish men were arrested at a Heathrow hotel on suspicion of blackmailing a Manchester-based internet company with threats of a DDoS attack.

In a testament to the very real business threat that cybercrime represents, a remote access trojan (RAT) has drained a California escrow firm of $1.5 million, forcing it to shut its doors and lay off its nine employees – at the state’s behest.

Privacy International has sent a pre-action letter (a formal pre-cursor to legal action) to BT, Verizon Business, Vodafone Cable, Level 3, Global Crossing (now owned by Level 3), Viatel and Interoute. At issue is the telcos’ involvement in GCHQ’s spy p…

Mobile malware continues to escalate in volume, with security vendor Fortinet seeing a 30% increase in malicious samples in just the last six months. The firm is seeing more than 1,300 new samples per day, mostly, unsurprisingly, Android-focused. The t…

Later this month in Sydney and in London in September, Gartner will hold summits on compliance and security. Compliance, it suggests, should be subsumed into risk management, rather than security being subsumed into compliance.

Hard on the heels of the discovery of the Russia-originated KINS banking trojan, a different Cyrillic cybercrime team has developed a financial trojan targeting the Linux operating system.

The last year has seen an evolution of botnets from home computers to commercial servers; a practice that seems to be gathering pace. However, methods of compromising web servers are different to the traditional PC compromise.