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- gcluley: Someone please help. I can't work out if this "Thank you Facebook" song is serious or ironic genius http://t.co/1GE0mRWVabout 4 hours ago
- gcluley: "Norton" phishing links to "AOL" phishing page? Lousy QA by spammers http://t.co/8j5GeYCFabout 6 hours ago
- duckblog: Jimbo "Wikipedia" Wales's namesake country boasts the world's first Wikipedia Town! (Seriously.) http://t.co/sgP0Vk1habout 9 hours ago
- ChetWisniewski: RT @nmap: Nmap 6 released! http://t.co/Z7d4qD2E < Congratulations Fyodorabout 18 hours ago
Monthly Archives: October 2008
US Presidential Race makes the security headlines
I'm in Boston at the moment having meetings with the good folks at Sophos Inc for a couple of days. Being stateside does give me the opportunity to indulge one of my guilty pleasures - following the machinations of the Read more…
Asus Eee Box PC ships with virus
Asus has been making great strides in the computer marketplace in the last year or so with its popular subnotebook PCs. With its small dimensions and affordable pricing, the Asus Eee caused a storm and other vendors have rushed to Read more…
Stop using WEP encryption!
Anyone who pays close attention to the security headlines will be only too aware of the major security incident which hit major retailers such as TJ Maxx having millions of credit card details stolen from them. As we have reported, Read more…
Money laundering or 419 spam
SophosLabs regularly sees spam relating to "money processing" jobs. Typically, these spam emails contain phrases like import/export business making payments receive *% of each payment looking for representatives in USA/Australia/Canada/UK The person sending you the spam will either steal your Read more…
Anti-spam product testing
Last week, while I was at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Ottawa I attended a couple of meetings on 'Anti-spam product testing'. The meetings were scheduled to coincide with the conference because the union of the attendees would be high. Read more…
Virus Bulletin 2008 and the end
This year's Virus Bulletin had finished in Ottawa. On top of all the jokes, the quality of the presentations was good this year. Presentations related to the themes of Malware-disinfection, distributed-computing and AV-Testing were all of high quality. Pob, Fraser Read more…
Yet another reason why malware really bugs me....
Generally, most malware is completely unoriginal. The vast majority of the malware that we see does the same similar things over and over and over again. But occasionally, something comes through that lab that does something novel and almost interesting. Read more…
Agobot malware case redux
Way back in 2004, Sophos reported on the arrest of a German man accused of creating the Agobot Trojan horse, that turned PCs into a botnet of compromised computers for the purposes of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Axel Gembe was Read more…
VB2008: Lipstick, pigs, anti-virus and ponytails
Last night, at the Virus Bulletin conference gala dinner, computer security experts from around the world donned their tuxedos and little black dresses (although not at the same time), and gathered for a slap-up meal. In the past, the conference Read more…
VB2008: The first day
Sorry for the delay in blogging about the latest goings-on at the Virus Bulletin conference in Ottawa, but this is turning out to be a vintage year. The conference kicked off yesterday morning at the surprisingly restrained time of half Read more…
Trout appears in court in council spyware case
Tony Trout, a Republican council official in Greenville County, South Carolina, has been arrested by FBI agents investigating spyware found on the council chairman's PC, and made his first court appearance. According to media reports, councilman Trout contends that he Read more…
SALiTy & cHIPS
A new variant of the Sality virus (W32/Sality-AM) was seen by the Australian lab last night. The polymorphic file infecting virus is quite destructive by today's standards and uses several tricks to make detection and disinfection difficult. Testing in the Read more…
VB2008: John Hawes of Virus Bulletin interviewed
I promised you gossip, and gossip you shall have. The VB2008 conference hasn't quite kicked off yet (we're just over seven hours away from kick-off) but as I described yesterday, meetings have been taking place behind closed doors between anti-virus Read more…
