MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Pirated software may carry an ostensibly small price tag compared to the real thing, but it often also carries something else: ride-along malware that will cost consumers 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion this year in identifying, repairing and recover…

The next evolution of credit card payment details extraction has hit Russian underground hacking forums in the form of the vSkimmer malware, a botnet that directly targets card payment terminals using Windows.

This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.

We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as inguma, arachni, bully, lbd, uniscan, automater, as well as star…

Sykipot malware, often tied to a Chinese origin, has been used extensively over the last few years to target primarily US defense organizations. Now the latest zero-day exploits used by the gang have been revealed.

South Korea, the globe’s most-wired country and one of its biggest tech hubs, has been hit with a wave of attacks on major media and banks, freezing networks and broadcast infrastructure and rendering a swath of ATMs, mobile banking, websites and payme…

A critical review of the Jimmy Savile case, who now posthumously has hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against him, suggests that a combination of his celebrity status and police privacy rules combined to protect him for decades.

The opportunity to change from Facebook blue to a different color is not a new scam, but there’s a new one doing the rounds right now: “I Totally Just Added The Brand New Facebook Black.”

It started from a joke – we should try root:root to log on to random IP addresses. But it evolved from that into a botnet of port scanners able to port scan the entire IPv4 internet in very short order: a complete IPv4 internet census.

A new handbook created for NATO has set out 95 black-letter rules of cyber warfare that, among other recommendations, states that governments should refrain from launching attacks on civilians, hospitals, nuclear power stations, dams and dykes.