MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Online scammers are re-scamming Internet pharmaceutical customers with a new ploy: posing as government agents and extorting money from them, says the US Food and Drug Administration.

Vendors of encrypted USB drives are recalling their NIST-certified products and issuing security updates after a fundamental flaw was found in the way that information is accessed. The flaw enables attackers to access encrypted data without trying to t…

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with identity theft and device fraud after forging driver’s licenses and selling them on to third parties.

Analysis published by Symantec claims to show that South Africa is set to become a cybercrime hub during the coming year, largely due to the introduction of new broadband internet capacity.

Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and penetration tester with Israel’s Avnet, claims to have discovered a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities with Twitter, the popular social networking portal.

Applications that blur the boundaries between online and offline software will be a primary hacker target this year, according to McAfee.

Van Morrison, the veteran rock star – now in his 60s – got a rude awakening to the world of IT security over the holiday when the newspapers and newswires were full of stories that he had become a father again.

A major lawsuit – stemming from a hacker attack on the RockYou social networking applications software portal – has been filed in the US.

PandaLabs, the anti-malware labs division of Panda Security, has published its 2009 virus yearbook, examining the most intriguing malicious virus,worm and trojan infections to emerge over the last 12 months.

The number of phishing attacks “rose dramatically in the run up to Christmas”, according to managed security services company Network Box.