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- SophosLabs: "Twitter has broken the news of 17 of the last 6 celebrity deaths" says @bschorr. Latest is Gorbachev http://t.co/Hp38Entf26 minutes ago
- SophosLabs: Email scams aren’t just from Nigeria. Learn how @gcluley won two lotteries in a day http://t.co/si1yDPEq34 minutes ago
- gcluley: Ha ha. RT: @bschorr Twitter has broken the news of 17 of the last 6 celebrity deaths.59 minutes ago
- gcluley: Multiply multilingual – Email scams aren’t just from Nigeria http://t.co/I56TyBXr59 minutes ago
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Sophos's plans for Red Nose Day
Red Nose Day is a UK-wide fundraising event organised by Comic Relief every two years which culminates in a night of extraordinary comedy and moving documentary films on BBC One Television. Red Nose Day will be the biggest TV fundraising Read more…
Reported to Facebook for violating their terms of service?
It's less than a week since a rogue third-party application called "Error Check System" blitzed Facebook users claiming that there was a problem with their profiles, sending concerned users to malicious websites as they searched for information. Now, another Facebook Read more…
Barack Obama's social media guru visits Sophos
Ben Self came to the high-tech SophosLabs offices in North Sydney, Australia, a few days ago while he was visiting the country as a guest of the Internet Industry Association. Ben is a founding partner of Blue State Digital, and Read more…
Phishing with zombies
As online gaming focuses more and more on social networking, the same kind of phishing we see on sites like Facebook and MySpace become more and more common on gaming networks -- particularly those where ownership of games is tied Read more…
Critical security flaws discovered in Adobe Flash Player - are you patched?
Adobe has shipped an update to its Flash Player which reportedly patches a number of critical security flaws. As Flash is so widely used it is essential that companies and individuals update their installations of the Flash Player at the Read more…
NASA hacker Gary McKinnon denied UK trial - CPS refuses to bring charges
NASA hacker Gary McKinnon is a step closer to extradition to the United States, following a decision by the British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to refuse to bring charges against him. 42-year-old McKinnon was arrested in 2002 after allegedly hacking Read more…
Batamhacker spreads an old-school worm
Yesterday afternoon we wrote and published detection for an unusually 'old school' style worm, complete with hacker graphics, something that we don't see too much of anymore. It's all a bit retro. I have to confess to completely misreading this particular hacker Read more…
Indian college spreads worm to kill worm
We've said it before and we'll say it again - there's no such thing as a "good worm". Today we saw a Visual Basic Script popping up repeatedly on a customer's network. On investigation, we found that it deleted malicious Read more…
Attention to Detail
I've come across something recently that some may find to be rather amusing. Though this particular FakeAV template has been out in the wild for quite some time now, something in particular caught my eye. The page is almost an Read more…
Trojan perpetually Rickrolls victims
Do you like internet fads that are so far past their sell-by date they're starting to whiff a bit? Do you consider 4chan to be the pinnacle of internet humour? Annoyed that your tastes aren't reflected in the current crop Read more…
Miley Cyrus hacker "used multiple celebrity MySpace accounts for spamming"
The 19-year-old hacker who was raided last October for allegedly breaking into Miley Cyrus's MySpace account and stealing candid photographs of the teenage singer, also hacking into the accounts of other stars according to the FBI. According to an affidavit Read more…
Gmail users hit by ViddyHo phishing chat attack
It's not been a good 24 hours for Gmail users. Having survived a blackout yesterday morning, fans of Google's email system have been the target of phishing campaign spreading via the Google Talk chat system. The unsolicited instant messages urge Read more…
Symbian users are lured by 'Sexy View' once again.
"Do not trust any kind of 'Sexy View' application and be careful even if you get a message from a known contact", say our threat researchers, "particularly these days, when Symbian users are under attack from the next generation of Read more…
Girl Power on virus-writing forum
Whilst checking out a very basic packer recently, one of my colleagues in the lab spotted something in the version information that led him to a malware writing forum. Actually 'malware writing forum' is being overly kind, it's more a Read more…
New Conficker variant
If you regularly follow computer security related blogs you may have read that recently there was some discussion about a potentially new variant of the Conficker worm. SRI researchers, in their detailed and interesting analysis decided to call the new Read more…
Nigerian scammers hack into Jack Straw's email account
Hackers have broken into the web email account of UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph, and sent out hundreds of emails attempting to defraud the politican's friends and constituents. The emails were sent Read more…
Real-life worm causes computer crash
When Mark Taylor's old laptop crashed he suspected he might have an unwelcome visitor. Maybe a virus or Trojan horse had managed to infect his PC while he was visiting a website or after opening an email? Or perhaps a Read more…
Should ISPs block access to illegal websites?
According to media reports, ISPs providing broadband access to 5% of the UK's internet users have failed to implement a system that blocks access to websites containing illegal images of child abuse. This is despite the British government asking all Read more…
Waled targets coupon-clippers
We've seen Waled pretend to be Barack Obama's website, we've seen it delivering fake Valentine's Day ecards - now Waled is sending out spam pretending to offer you coupons. You can click the image here to enlarge it, but you Read more…
A sting in the tail of the "Error Check System" Facebook scare
Earlier today I warned you about a third-party Facebook application called "Error Check System" that has been moving in mysterious ways on the social network. Naturally, a lot of people will have been searching for information about "Error Check System" Read more…
