MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Reports are coming in of a systematic hack of Twitter accounts – apparently owned by Israeli internet users – by Turkish hackers.

Every IT project in central government is being reviewed and contracts renegotiated in an attempt to make the £95m savings announced by the government last month.

US headquartered IT security vendor Skybox Security has taken the wraps off v5.0 of its automated firewall and allied security systems management software. In the process, the company has added change assurance and tracking to its software.

US headquartered IT security vendor Skybox Security has taken the wraps off v5.0 of its automated firewall and allied security systems management software. In the process, the company has added change assurance and tracking to its software.

A cybercriminal gang appears to have resurrected the old pump and dump internet scam, this time adapted to use the power of a botnet.

The world’s second-largest seller of website addresses knowingly helped groups that sell counterfeit pharmaceuticals to US residents in violation of federal laws, a research report alleges.

Online ticket sales are hot targets for fraudsters, but research shows UK customers are buying only from sites that offer security assurances, says VeriSign.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General testified before Congress yesterday and provided an update on US-CERT’s efforts to improve cybersecurity, while also identifying many key points where the department is still falling short.

M86 Security has come across active exploitation of a Skype ActiveX vulnerability that affects older versions of the popular VoIP service.

You wouldn’t normally classify digital printers as being a security risk but, according to Quentyn Taylor, director of information security with Canon, high-end multi-functional printers pose a serious security risk when they come to the end of their …