It is worthwhile to discuss Fake apps: http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/dont-be-fooled-bitdefender-anti-prank-tool-does-not-exist-11664.html There are “fake” apps which claim to be anti-virus or other legitimate apps (like games) but in reality are stealing your information on your phones and computers. Example: Guardian story Here is a Criminal developer boasting(on a discussion board) about creating the fake Flappybird app which steals … Read more
The Google code website link: https://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/ Here is an interesting bit of info (from the link above): ZAP came second in the Top Security Tools of 2014 as voted by ToolsWatch.org readers Here is a screenshot with my test on my own website – www.fixvirus.com I clicked on the response tab after Owasp-Zap tries to … Read more
We know Insider trading is bad – even though we all want the money, the info to know that there will be good news before the news becomes public is sometimes draws a certain person like a moth to a flame. image from slide: http://www.slideshare.net/Identacor/8-nastiest-data-breaches-in-2015 7. Morgan Stanley insider theft: Morgan Stanley fired an employee … Read more
Let’s assume that you agree that some sort of testing of your computers/network is required or should be done. How should you test your network? There are daily scans coming onto all ip addresses on the Internet. This is a fact of life. What is going on? We have talked about this before: http://oversitesentry.com/how-many-scans-are-attacking-the-internet/ {Most … Read more
I want to discuss 2 articles and then answer the question on the title. http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/mar/24/hackers-cyberwar-businesses-cybercrime {Hackers are winning the cyberwar and businesses are all too often simply hoping for the best, according to many security experts. } Cost of Cybercrime in UK is £18-27bn … supposedly. This could actually be low, since many people do not … Read more
