MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Hispasec Sistemas, one of Spanish-speaking world’s rising IT security stars, has enhanced its online malware analysis service to accept programmes of up to 10 megabytes, as well as supporting an impressive 23 languages via its on-screen interface

Ghost in the machine The Information Warfare Monitor published a report on GhostNet, a cyber-espionage network that it discovered after conducting a security audit for the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Government in Exile. Almost 1300 machines were discovered …

SQL injection will take a new turn later this month at Black Hat Europe, when a security researcher shows how to take control of a database server using the technique.

SQL injection will take a new turn later this month at Black Hat Europe, when a security researcher shows how to take control of a database server using the technique.

Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are underestimating the security danger posed by their employees, especially in light of the current recession, according to network security software developer, GFI.

TelTech has launched what appears to be the industry’s first pay-as-you-use telephone voice analysis (lie detection) service.

In a response to a BBC investigation into the leaking of payment card data from Indian call centres, Symantec’s Indian operation has admitted that card data on three of its customers may have been leaked from its call centre contractor in India.

If you’re an IT security professional with a long memory, you’ll recall a BBC TV demonstration of the Van Eck phenomenon – the process of eavesdropping on a CRT monitor at a distance of several metres using low-cost electronics in the mid-1980s followi…

Bugs, browsers, bureaucracy, backtracks and busts.

The follow-up to the Grey Goose cyberwar document has more closely linked Russia to the cyberwar against Georgia. The Kremlin’s FSB tried to cloak its operations by mimicking the activities of loosely-connected criminal group the Russian Business Netwo…