MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Crowdsourcing is being used for everything from start-up funding to news reporting, and it makes sense that the idea would make it to the security community. Rapid7 has kicked off Project Sonar, a collaborative effort to improve security through the ac…

The latest Edward Snowden leaks show that the NSA not merely collects metadata (everything about a communication excluding the content) from Americans and non-Americans alike, it generates automatic graphical analyses from that data.

“You deter people by having an offensive capability. We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us,” said UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

In March this year, anti-spam website Spamhaus suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 300 gigabits per second, the largest ever recorded and sufficient to disrupt the internet itself in some parts of Europe.

Scott Borg, the man who foresaw a Stuxnet-style cyber-attack years before it was discovered, has issued his latest prediction: manipulation of financial markets will be the long-term cybercrime wave of the future.

Intermedia, a US provider of cloud-based business applications, has acquired SaaSID, a UK start-up that provides SSO across all cloud services from any device.

It is no longer enough to say that business comprises those who have adopted cloud technology and those who will adopt cloud technology. New research from NTT Com Security (erstwhile Integralis) describes five separate personas in attitude to cloud; al…

From cloud-powered denial-of-service attacks and Big Data vulnerabilities to bio-hacks that defeat authentication systems like fingerprint recognition, we are on the cusp of a brave new world of cyber-attack exploits, Europol warns.

Even as headlines focus on the security of one’s internet-based cloud communications, at least one study shows that organizations lack the information to understand and mitigate the broader set of risks posed by the use of cloud services. In fact, thei…

While traditional APTs attack high profile major industry targets with persistent and evasive malware, researchers have described a new approach: small scale, fast moving hackers that target the supply chain.