This week, reports ComputerWorld, an IT Consultant named Steven Oakes was jailed for 3 years for spying on the communications of a share recommendation firm called Port Phillip Publishing (PPP). In a period from 2012 to 2016, the Victorian man used a device known as a Wi-Fi packet sniffer to copy and then decrypt messages […]
20 years ago, it was easy to create and administer your own company network. You cabled the computers (typically desktops) in a daisy chain or to a central switch, connected to a modem and accessed the early wonders of Internet and email. There was no such thing as ransomware, data theft was confined to government […]
As reported in IT News, malware that has a very specific purpose has been found lurking in the Google Play store. It’s called Overseer, and it’s designed to target business travellers going overseas. It steals lots of information for a very specific purpose. Once installed on a user’s Android device, Overseer collects and sends home […]