The marketing of security products and services often consists of misleading or outright false claims, which isn’t all that surprising considering how awful the security industry is.  One thing we have seen being misleadingly used fairly often is the phrase real-time, which often is used in way that make it sounds like a much higher level of service is being provided.

As example of that involving our area of focus, we recently ran across MainWP, a service for managing multiple WordPress websites, promoting an extension for their service that accesses data from the WPScan Vulnerability Database with this claim: [Read more]