Aunty has a firm belief that anybody who has a vested interest in charging money for keeping you safe from harm is likely to have a vested interest in perpetuating the threat of that harm - otherwise they run the risk of becoming obsolete when that harm is no longer.

In Aunty’s old stomping grounds this was called a “protection racket”.

In WholeSecurity’s stomping grounds this is, apparently, called a “business model”.

Here’s how it works:

Major companies who are frequently phished, including, it has been announced, Microsoft, eBay, PayPal, and Visa USA, provide information and data to WholeSecurity related current phishing activities.

WholeSecurity is going to then sell a phishing alert service… [Continued...]