MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

The University of Oxford is poised to broaden its cybersecurity education offerings, with advanced degree training beginning this autumn.

A new professional-grade banking trojan is stepping into the cybercrime vacuum left by Zeus and Citadel – and looks to be as effective as those notorious kings of crimeware have been at draining people’s bank accounts.

Hacker conferences, like Black Hat and DEFCON, are notorious for highlighting the security missteps of attendees. Before the show, which takes place in Las Vegas next week, IT security professionals should take every security precaution to prevent bein…

The Lakeland kitchenware online store has emailed its customers with a warning that two of its databases were breached by hackers late last week, and that it was resetting all customer passwords.

The pro-Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) yesterday defaced the Viber subdomain support.viber.com and pasted a screenshot of user information supposedly taken from a breached database.

Cyber-crime and espionage is clearly a costly scourge for businesses and governments, factoring in data theft, clean-up costs, brand damage, customer losses, and so on. In total, the range for cybercrime loss to the global economy is between $100 billi…

The United Arab Emirates has successfully fought off a series of cyber-attacks that it was able to trace back to Egypt.

Disputed ex-Chinese province Taiwan is reportedly playing a big role in the global cyberwar. Security experts say the island is a proving ground for Chinese hacker-spies, who attack its IT infrastructure on a regular basis with hundreds of attempts per…

A new web application attack report reveals that retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, and that one website received 94,000 attack requests in 24 hours – or 26 attack requests per minute.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s expected statement on internet porn was duly delivered yesterday, and led to immediate accusations of being confused, unworkable, and the beginning of online censorship.