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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: March 2009
Car complaint? Viagra spammers will rev up your engine
Spammers need you to read their message in order to have any chance of selling to you. So, the first challenge for them is to get you to open their email in the first place. Quite often we see the Read more…
Ladies and Gentlemen, update your PDF readers..
Last month we warned you about a critical zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Adobe PDF Reader that was being exploited by hackers to infect computers. The risk is that hackers could craft a malformed PDF file that could trigger the Read more…
Malware authors jump on the PIFTS.EXE bandwagon
It looks like the bad guys are proving that once again they aren't slow to leap on an opportunity. With parts of the internet flustering over the Symantec / PIFTS.EXE debacle, hackers have set out to poison search engines in Read more…
The mystery of Symantec and PIFTS.EXE
The internet is full of babble today - and a fair amount of conspiracy theories - after users of Symantec's Norton anti-virus products began to see firewall alerts asking them if they wanted to trust a program called PIFTS.EXE. Hundreds Read more…
Do you use the same password for every website?
Despite high-profile security breaches such as Jack Straw's Hotmail account being compromised, and cybercriminals gaining access to celebrity Twitter accounts after cracking an administrator password, a third of computer users are still using the same password for every website they Read more…
Emma Watson condemns Twitter fraudsters
Teenage actress Emma Watson, known around the world for her portrayal of brainbox Hermione Granger in the series of Harry Potter films, has condemned fraudsters impersonating her on Twitter. The popular actress has claimed that reports that she had accepted Read more…
Tough Work!
As regular readers of this blog may know, I'm often asked to present at a variety of conferences and it's something that on the whole I enjoy. This time last week I was preparing for a rather different speaking engagement Read more…
Chatwebcamfree attack hits Twitter users
Hundreds of Twitter users have been hit by another attack on the popular micro-blogging site, with messages being sent from compromised accounts trying to drive traffic to a pornographic website. The messages which say hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me Read more…
Hackers disguise malware as Google News report of baseball death
Baseball player John C Odom became known to millions across America last May after he was traded for ten maple bats. Tragically, the 26-year-old died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol late last year. This news has only Read more…
Would a botnet master make a good security employee?
A 27-year old man from Los Angeles who admitted infecting a quarter of a million computers with malware and stealing the identities and bank account details of thousands, has been sentenced to four years in jail. John Schiefer pleaded guilty Read more…
Jail for gang who attempted £229m bank robbery
A gang who attempted the cybercrime of the century by trying to steal £229 million from a bank have been sentenced to jail. Belgian hackers Jan van Osselaer, 32, and Gilles Poelvoorde, 35, were sneaked into the London offices of Read more…
Men found guilty of botched £229m high-tech bank heist
It would have been Britain's biggest bank robbery - an elaborate scheme to steal £229 million from the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui by smuggling hackers into the premises after-hours to install keylogging software onto terminals. Once the spyware was Read more…
Spotify users warned of password security breach
Over a million users of the Spotify music service are being warned that they may have to change their passwords after it was announced that information about members could have been stolen by hackers. According to a statement by the Read more…
Cybercriminal leads Ukrainian political party
Do you believe that hackers who played a part in exchanging stolen credit card details stolen by password-grabbing spyware can be rehabilitated into society? What kind of career path do you think they should follow? Computer security consultant? Penetration tester? Read more…
iStockphoto struck by phishing attack
Users of the huge iStockphoto online photo library are being advised to change their passwords following a phishing attack against the website. According to a statement on the website, the phishing attack was perpetrated across iStockphoto's online forums and via Read more…
Police action shuts German hacking forum
Police in Germany have shut down a website message board where hackers were exchanging malicious spyware and password-stealing programs designed to commit identity theft. According to investigators at the LKA (Landeskriminalamt) police internet crime unit in the Baden-Württemberg, the www.codesoft.cc Read more…
Some competition housekeeping
Thanks to the more than 700 of you who recently gave your opinion in the social networking survey I conducted on the Clu-blog. The survey is now closed, and one lucky name was pulled out of the hat to win Read more…
Opera users urged to patch against security holes
With most of the world using Internet Explorer and Firefox to surf the web, it's all to easy to think that those are the only browsers which suffer from security problems. Users of alternative browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Safari Read more…
UPS delivery malware rears its ugly head again
It's not a new technique for fooling people into opening a malicious attachment, but clearly the hackers still think it has some legs. We've seen a lot of emails in our spamtraps today pretending to be a failed delivery report Read more…
Sting supports NASA hacker Gary McKinnon
Want to know why Sting looks like a zombie? Gary McKinnon, the hacker who allegedly hacked into networks belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA, may have been denied a UK trial, Read more…
