MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Another day, another lost memory stick: this one with details of a UK nuclear power station including plans and a stress test lost in India.

The UK Government is renewing its plans to retain internet and mobile phone traffic data on everyone for a year.

Google is again fixing flaws in its Chrome browser only a week after plugging 20 security holes with the release of version 17.

The US Central Intelligence Agency’s private sector research funding arm, In-Q-Tel (IQT), is investing in technology to analyze binary code in order to uncover malware.

Hackers likely downloaded encrypted credit card transaction information from a backup database of Steam online game distribution platform users, Valve announced recently.

Visitors to the rnbxclusive website are met with a stern rebuke from a UK LEA. Italian Windows users can receive a similar rebuke from the Polizia. Only one is genuine.

Hot on the heels of its Shockwave and Robohelp patches, Adobe has issued a patch for seven critical flaws in its Flash Player, including a zero-day universal cross-site scripting vulnerability.

The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.

Bangladeshi hackers have been hacking Indian sites, and Indian hackers have been hacking Bangladeshi sites. Now it is escalating as each side calls for ‘cyberwar’ against the other.

WikiLeaks has denounced UNESCO for refusing to allow it to speak at a conference being held at UNESCO HQ in Paris today and tomorrow. The conference is called ‘The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World.’