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- SophosLabs: State of Utah outlines mistakes made allowing theft of 780K records http://t.co/KojHRCTC9 minutes ago
- gcluley: What can secure software development learn from Bill Shakespeare? http://t.co/aGpajSnr36 minutes ago
- SophosSupport: How to uninstall Sophos Mobile Security for Android: http://t.co/aQedSnXn44 minutes ago
- gcluley: TV tech hacked sports show's website to earn virtual cash http://t.co/zfPCm2mzabout 1 hour ago
- gcluley: Doctors shouldn't buddy up with patients on Facebook or Twitter, hospitals warn http://t.co/BJUgdb8Nabout 2 hours ago
Monthly Archives: July 2008
HCKAED: Facebook Scrabble application knocked offline by hackers
# You could have given me ROSES, but you gave me SORES # - The Scrabble Song, Otis Lee Crenshaw. Following the news that Scrabble-clone Scrabulous had been withdrawn from US and Canadian players, there has been a new development Read more…
E-ticket to Malware
As with the recent spate of UPS themed spammed out malware, comes the E-Ticket one. The idea is the same - "Thanks for using our service blah blah blah ..... here is the attached receipt/invoice" The messages so far have Read more…
How do they make a BBC TV News report?
14:29 Magnus at BBC News calls me, and asks if I would be able to be interviewed about the Gary McKinnon case. I ask if this is for TV or radio, and he tells me it's for the national six Read more…
NASA hacker Gary McKinnon loses appeal against US extradition
Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal at the House of Lords against being extradited to the United States. It seems obvious that the USA's position is clear. Anyone making any attempts to compromise American government and military computers and data, Read more…
IT world split on whether Gary McKinnon should be extradited
While we're waiting for news on Gary McKinnon's appeal at the House of Lords, I thought it would be interesting to review what people who work in IT (and thus, normally busy themselves with defending their networks from hackers) think Read more…
House of Lords to rule on appeal of "NASA hacker" Gary McKinnon
In under an hour, the House of Lords is expected to start presenting its judgement on the curious case of Gary McKinnon. McKinnon, the so-called "NASA hacker" from North London, was arrested six and a half years ago after allegedly Read more…
Plus de spam de UPS
Today's UPS spam is brought to you with a French theme (we've seen previous instances in English and German). The messages so far all have a subject of "UPS colis postal" (that's "UPS postal parcel" or thereabouts), and after a Read more…
Facebook scrabbles to control third-party applications
The three greatest games the human race has ever produced are Chess, Scrabble and Alley Cat. Scrabble has had something of a resurgence in popularity lately, with a growing number of people playing via a Facebook application called Scrabulous. Such Read more…
3000 British passports go missing
First - the good news. Although some 3000 British passports have been stolen from an unlocked van (the driver, apparently, was nipping into the newsagent's for a bar of chocolate), they were blank and contained no information about members of Read more…
Securing your Gmail email with https
A lot of people use Google's free web email service, called Gmail. I have lost count of the friends and colleagues who have ditched their Hotmail and Yahoo accounts for a Gmail address instead - certainly one of its attractions Read more…
Dorf: Amero, postcards, FBI vs. Facebook
After the US vs. Iran Dorf (Storm) spam campaign, the malware authors had taken a short break and the botnet stopped sending their regular campaigns. Starting a week ago, the authors have renewed their attacks and published 3 campaigns within Read more…
Are hackers failing to make the grade?
Ever since the 1983 film "War Games", many a failing student has dreamt of emulating Matthew Broderick and - no, not starting a thermonuclear war - hacking into their school computer system to change their grades. Now a 19-year-old college Read more…
Phishing on the road to Wigan Pier
When you see as many spam and phishing emails as we see in SophosLabs each day, it's all too easy to forget the human consequence of all this unwanted junk. The sad truth is that people are being conned into Read more…
DNS vulnerability - patch now!
A lot has already been said and written about a vulnerability affecting all major implementations of DNS resolvers, discovered by Dan Kaminsky. This post is just a reminder that you should apply patches relevant to your DNS server implementation as Read more…
Almost what I expected...
During some time off this week I booked the flights for my summer vacation. Checking for my confirmation email (using a personal email account not protected by Sophos's PureMessage) I found not one but two emails about my purchase. One Read more…
Spam deaths: A lesson for us all
There have been a lot of media reports since the tragic news began to trickle through overnight on the suicide of escaped spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson, and the apparent murder of his wife and daughter. Charles Arthur, technology correspondent for Read more…
Picture of a desk thinking
The tagline on this blog says "Thoughts from the desk of computer security veteran Graham Cluley". Reader Simon got in touch to ask if the desk had many thoughts about computer security, as in his experience they tend to keep Read more…
Spam escapee murders wife and child, and then kills himself
The story of spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson, who escaped from a federal prison at the weekend, has a tragic ending. According to the Associated Press, the dead bodies of Davidson, his wife Amy Hill, and his three-year-old daughter, have been Read more…
Unusual Customs
The people who brought you the recent malware in UPS spam, then in tax-themed spam, are now pumping out Customs-based messages. The current run has subject lines including the following: Customs - We have received a parcel for you Customs, Read more…
Dorf, Tibs and UPS - the malware spamming spree continues
Although I spend less time than I used to processing the operational day to day malware and spam submissions, it did not take me too long this week to start appreciating work of people doing this job every day of Read more…
