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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: February 2009
Congressman Twitters secret trip to Iraq
Was a US delegation's security threatened by careless use of Twitter? All computer users need to be aware of the far-reaching consequences associated with the irresponsible use of social networking sites like Twitter, following news that a high ranking member Read more…
Hacked road sign warns of British invasion
First there was a warning that there were zombies on the road ahead, now another hacked road sign is spreading news that the British are invading America. According to media reports, an electronic road sign being used by construction workers Read more…
Spammers must fool humans and computers
Fooling either a human or a a computer is a relatively easy task but fooling both is difficult. Humans and computers 'think' differently and spammers use different tricks to get past both. My colleague Dmitry gave a talk in 2005 Read more…
Have you patched your printer?
HP has issued a security bulletin urging owners of certain LaserJet printers to apply a firmware update. According to the company, the security vulnerability potentially allows hackers to gain unauthorised access to files stored on the printer via its web Read more…
Security has to strike a balance
Rich Baldry, a product manager based in our Vancouver offices, has put his pen to paper (actually that's a lie, he's used his fingers and a keyboard) and written the following guest blog post. Over to you Rich.. IBM's X-Force Read more…
Facebook femme fatale: Youth accused of sex blackmail plot
Police have accused a teenager with sexual assault after he allegedly posed as a girl on Facebook, encouraged 31 classmates to send him naked photos, and blackmailed them into performing sexual acts. 18-year-old Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisconsin, has Read more…
$9 million stolen in co-ordinated global cash machine heist
Hackers who stole information from RBS WorldPay, distributed cloned debit cards around the world that stole $9 million from 130 ATM machines in 49 cities around the world in just 10 hours. Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Read more…
The Sophos snowball fight
Following the deluge of snow overnight which covered Sophos's offices in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, we decided to have a snowball fight. (Enjoy this video? You can check out more on the SophosLabs YouTube channel and subscribe if you like) We challenged Read more…
Education must start early
Yesterday one of the articles posted to The Register caught my eye - "Primary schools hit by smut hack". In brief, the article describes the recent defacement of various primary school web sites (originally reported 3 days ago). Curiously, it Read more…
Come on Kaspersky, if you think you're hard enough..
Enough snow fell in the UK on Monday for everybody to make 251,800 snowballs.. each. That's the calculation of maths wizard and national sweetheart Carol Vorderman, who reckons that Britain saw a mind-boggling 3,840 billion kilograms of snow on 2 Read more…
FBI warns of money mule scams
The FBI has published a warning on its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website about the danger of fake job adverts and "work at home" scams. The scams normally involve a criminal gang hiring an often innocent third party (known Read more…
Government security workers warned of identity theft risk
No company likes to admit that it has had a security breach. But things must feel even more awkward when the victim company is a computer security contractor working for the US federal government. SRA International, a government contractor that Read more…
AMTSO Progress
It's the day after the latest AMTSO meeting and I can report that we had a very successful meeting. Around 50 of us met at Symantec's headquarters in Cupertino and spent two days discussing various topics that are pertinent to Read more…
Spammers spread Viagra adverts as iTunes invoice
Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular online music store, with millions of users downloading the latest songs every day to their MP3 players. It's sadly not a surprise then to find that spammers are adopting the disguise of an Read more…
Sophos's reactive and proactive detection tested, wins VB100 award
The chaps at Virus Bulletin magazine have just published details of their latest comparative test. Okay, lets get the basic stuff out of the way first. The test was on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 platform and Sophos successfully Read more…
Marcie wants to make movies
Have you appeared in a sex video with a girl called Marcie in the last few days? If so, you probably wouldn't be surprised about receiving an email like this: If however, as I suspect, you aren't a worker in Read more…
Don't watch this video
I need to make an apology. Last year, Sophos issued a video which used "scare tactics" and "publicity-seeking gimmicks" to capture the attention of the public in the fight against spam. According to our friends at PineApp, who protect businesses Read more…
Guest blog: How an SMS exposed Virgin Mobile's website
Thomas Milne, a test engineer in our Vancouver offices, stumbled across a security hole on Virgin Mobile's website last week. He informed them of the problem which, fortunately, they've now fixed. Now you can hear what happened from his point Read more…
Those wild AMTSO meetings
I'm in Cupertino this week attending the latest AMTSO meeting. Last October Sophos hosted the meeting where the Best Practice guidelines and Dynamic testing documents were ratified. This time the meeting is being hosted at Symantec's headquarters in Cupertino and Read more…
Obama worm is not harmless
At the end of last week stories appeared about a new USB aware worm, that displays a picture of President Barack Obama, that has variously been described as toothless , a 'student prank' and 'mostly harmless'. There is no such Read more…
