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- duckblog: Get into RSA 2012 in San Francisco for free! Use the code SC12SPH - http://t.co/DXO28TCYabout 3 hours ago
- ChetWisniewski: Update on the KPN compromise in The Netherlands, company says "password are encrypted with UTF8" http://t.co/EmDuXfqSabout 3 hours ago
- gcluley: Cryptome was hacked this weekend directing users to Blackhole exploits. Advice for web admins http://t.co/aN78hlkpabout 6 hours ago
- ChetWisniewski: Leaks website Cryptome was hacked this weekend directing users to Blackhole exploits. Advice for web admins http://t.co/OxSK9sifabout 6 hours ago
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Looking for naked girls with guns?
This week our colleagues in the web team shared some of our blog stats with us. What an eye opener! If you've ever wondered what the most popular search keywords are for visitors to the SophosLabs blog, let me enlighten Read more…
Have you seen this spammer?
The chap pictured on the right is Edward "Eddie" Davidson, the spammer who was sentenced to 21 months in prison back in April. Eddie got himself into trouble with the authorities after sending junk email encouraging people to buy perfume Read more…
Sophos Security Threat Report, July 2008
SophosLabs has issued the July 2008 edition of its regular Security Threat Report, this time looking at the first six months of the year. One of the major themes of the year has been the increase in web-based malware threats, Read more…
Latest Threats and Trends
Today we've released our latest Sophos Security Threat Report, a summary of what we have been seeing over the past six months. Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised that web threats continue to grow. With a staggering Read more…
Twitter admits it has a spam problem
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, has acknowledged in a blog post that the site has a spam problem. The good news is that the spam problem on Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter is tiny compared to Read more…
Graham gets his own blog
For the last few months I've been running my own blog internally here at Sophos, and now those terribly nice people in our web team have made it available for the world at large. You can visit "Graham Cluley's blog" Read more…
How's our blogging?
The SophosLabs blog has been up and running for quite some time now, but we haven't as yet taken time out to stop and ask the question "How are we doing?" Here in the Labs we devote time and effort Read more…
Thanks for the memory sticks
With apologies to Bob Hope.. # Thanks for the memory sticks, The secrets that we stole, Suggest you've lost control, Of staff who are lax with laptops, and the rules you extol... We thank you so much # One of Read more…
James Brown bread
Fraser Howard, one of the principal virus researchers at SophosLabs, has blogged about a new malware campaign that has been spammed out using sensationalist subject lines to lure people into clicking on a link to a malicious website. Email subject Read more…
Same old social-engineering
It often surprises me that malware authors continue to stick to the same old social engineering tricks to dupe victims into infecting themselves. Whether this says more about the malware authors or the large pool of people that are susceptible Read more…
China swamped by mobile phone spam
If you have a mobile phone you may have from time-to-time been irritated by an unsolicited SMS text message offering you a free ringtone, or some other nonsense. I receive probably a couple of these every year. Not a big Read more…
Is it a Trojan or a Trojan horse?
Katherine in our marketing department wandered over to my desk yesterday. She's the house-style guru, and has been busy wrestling some random words I shoved together into a form suitable for a security threat report that we will be issuing Read more…
Official Facebook response to privacy problem
So, it took a little while but Facebook has sent me a response regarding the privacy breach which meant users' dates of birth were being revealed: Hi Graham, Due to a technical glitch, some Facebook users' full dates of birth Read more…
30 months of bread and water for spammer
Get the bunting out - another spammer is being sent to the clink. 27-year-old Adam Vitale was sentenced by a federal court in Manhattan yesterday to 30 months in prison after sending spam to more than 1.2 million AOL users Read more…
Facebook privacy problem - some details and a video
Facebook appears to have fixed the problem with their site which meant it was sharing members' birthdates even if they had set their privacy settings to hide the information from everyone. In tests I conducted this morning it was no Read more…
Video: Change your date of birth on Facebook - right now
Facebook messes up, and reveals everybody's full date of birth - even if you have chosen to hide it.
Facebook privacy problem?
I've just seen something rather alarming on Facebook. It looks like there's a problem with the social networking website in so much as it is showing people's full dates of birth - even when they have specifically requested that they Read more…
Death of the internet?
Yesterday we saw some interesting emails in our spam queues, which for once weren't related to gigantic members or 5 million dollar bank transfers. The attention grabbing subject line of these mails was; "2012: The Year The Internet Ends" The Read more…
June Round up
Other than the continuing growth in volume (up to 20,000 malware samples a day!) the main issue for the past month or so is the vast numbers of websites compromised with SQL inject attacks. Using search engines such as Google, Read more…
Richard & Judy.. and Sophos
"Richard & Judy" is a British TV phenomenon. Imagine "Oprah" mixed with "Live with Regis & Kelly", with a twist of "Alan Partridge" and you're only just beginning to scratch the surface of the unmissable, unique and heart-warming show that is Read more…
