MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The US Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, have arrested 10 individuals suspected of operating an international cybercrime ring that has compromised 11 million computer systems and caused more than $850…

Botnets are a rising tide in the malware ocean, but implementing a set of security best practices can aid organizations in erecting levies against it.

Access management specialist BeyondTrust, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, has acquired Blackbird Group to bolster its product portfolio.

Almost half of businesses worldwide have started using encryption technology to protect critical data, and encryption is now the fifth most used protection technique claims a new report.

‘Do as I say, not as I do’ seems to be the attitude toward the cloud held by security professionals – it’s good enough for company data, but not our own data.

Users are sharing information on social networks and using public cloud services to move data from corporate to personal devices in ways that by-pass company security policies and systems, and expose company data.

Hacking group Team GhostShell launches a new logo, drops 1.6 million hacked records in the name of ProjectWhiteFox (NASA, European Space Agency, Bigelow Aerospace and more), and signs off until the new year.

In its first comment on the apparent purpose behind the August Shamoon attack on Aramco, Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it was an external attack not just against Aramco, but against the Saudi economy.

A cluster of 25 AMD Radeon GPUs using OpenVCL and the Hashcat password recovery software is claimed to make 348 billion guesses per second against NTLM hashed passwords, and 63 billion against SHA1 hashed passwords according to a presentation at last w…

As rough of a year as 2012 was for cybersecurity, in 2013 we will see higher stakes than ever before, researchers say. WatchGuard’s security research analysts are predicting upticks in emerging cyber threats – including those that can cause loss of hum…