SecurityThreats

Forever Day is a play on the “Zero-day” vulnerability which means the application vulnerability has not been patched and can be hacked. Forever-day now means it is always vulnerable (unless the software vendors figure out a patch), although it may be a configuration problem.   Dark reading has the story: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/new-security-flaw-spans-all-versions-of-windows/d/d-id/1319884 The most interesting paragraph: … Read more

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

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

DDoS(distributed Denial of System) means that a number of machines  on the Internet are attacking one of your machines, It starts with several machines(“Masters”) being controlled by the “Attacker”, then the “slaves” attack your machine. With this definition of DDoS normally The actual attack into your machine usually just floods the victim machine with nonsensical … Read more