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- ChetWisniewski: Fancy some geeky tech-puzzle fun? Try our latest #sophospuzzle (and win a NERF gun) http://t.co/9k3pr1Qaabout 3 hours ago
- ChetWisniewski: Looks like no #Canadians have solved the latest #sophospuzzle yet - c'mon, let's give'r http://t.co/9k3pr1Qaabout 4 hours ago
- SophosLabs: Sophos just released a beta of its free Android anti-virus scanner (does other things too). Get it here http://t.co/9ankUHxhabout 5 hours ago
- gcluley: Technical paper - Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat http://t.co/8pyjNEbGabout 5 hours ago
Monthly Archives: December 2008
All the world is a petri dish
Most of the samples seen by SophosLabs are pretty straight forward malware, be they your typical Banker Trojan, Zlob disguised as a codec installer, some flavour of removable media/autorun worm or one of the many incarnations of fake anti-virus software Read more…
Do you really need anti-virus on your Apple Mac?
It started with just a small pebble being dropped into a pond. Apple updated one of its support advisories on 21 November, informing its customers that they are recommended to run anti-virus software. Most people would never have noticed this Read more…
More and more test results
Over the last few weeks there have been a flurry of test results. The first report in October was from AV-comparatives. The guys there have carried out a performance test. The result for Sophos in this test was okay. Our Read more…
Trapped in history
Last month, I was feeling trapped in history. At the beginning of the month I was dealing with a customer query regarding Quaint, a Master Boot Sector virus that is 10 years old. At the end of the month I Read more…
Ruxing it down-under
This past weekend Duck and myself attended RuxCon'08, a locally organised information-security conference. There were a number of interesting and relevant presentations however most of the "shop-talk" was done sitting at the bar where presented ideas could be discussed in Read more…
Lies, Fake AV, and Statistics
Today we saw a hockey statistics website that had been compromised - it was redirecting via several hops to a fake anti-virus site detected as Mal/FakeAvJs-A, and was popping up the following message (click to enlarge): If you do go Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 award for Windows Vista x64
The good people of Virus Bulletin magazine have just published information about their latest round of anti-virus product tests. VB, as it is known in the industry, has been published since 1989 and is an independent journal which includes detailed Read more…
ShamWow infomercial mutates into spam
Have you seen the ShamWow infomercial? I must admit, I wasn't aware of the ShamWow internet phenomenon until today. But a quick search of YouTube revealed that it is a low budget television advert for an absorbent towel that is Read more…
Any room for spam after your Thanksgiving meal?
If you're American you may be feeling bloated and stuffed after over-indulging over the Thanksgiving holiday. That may explain the timing of one of the spam campaigns I saw in our traps here at SophosLabs this morning. It doesn't try Read more…
More contract malware spammed out
The start of a new week has brought some minor variations to the contract malware I warned you about on Friday. The malicious messages that are being spammed out are pretending to be changes to a contract - some related Read more…
Facebook data loss fiasco
When it arrived in my inbox it looked so phishy, but it isn't. Facebook has emailed users admitting to the most enormous blunder. Somehow, someone at Facebook managed to lose users' settings controlling when they should be emailed. Now, this Read more…
Application Control for games: more than just a productivity issue
Back in March 2007 Sophos published an article on Application Control blocking games such as Second Life. It was briefly mentioned that games were a security concern as well as a productivity one; I'd like to go into more detail Read more…
