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- ChetWisniewski: Microsoft wasn't the only one to release patches on Valentine's. Adobe Shockwave and Oracle Java get critical fixes http://t.co/S26DjIl7about 2 hours ago
- SophosLabs: Warning - Whitney Houston autopsy video links on Facebook aren’t what they seem http://t.co/aLG1e7vY tip @techmemeabout 8 hours ago
- SophosLabs: Who has better privacy laws: USA or European Union? http://t.co/rQUnw2kW (via @mooseabyte)about 9 hours ago
- gcluley: Warning: Whitney Houston autopsy video links on Facebook aren’t what they seem http://t.co/sg98h50Fabout 9 hours ago
- SophosLabs: iPhone 5 tester SMS text scam hits cellphones http://t.co/0orOOGG7about 12 hours ago
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Security updates for Google Chrome and Firefox
Two popular web browsers have been updated to fix a number of security vulnerabilities which, if exploited, could be used by hackers to run malicious code on your computers. Users of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are advised to update Read more…
Model scams are all the fashion
My brother-in-law John Bacon is a good-looking young chap, and recently started working as a model while he was living in Costa Rica. He's back in the UK now, and received an email from a London-based modelling agency offering him Read more…
What do puppies, furniture, and Viagra have in common?
We don't have a clue either, but while digging through a list of compromised sites I found something rather amusing. For some time now, we've been seeing a number of sites that have been compromised with dozens of links linking Read more…
Solution to computer security cryptic crossword
Thanks to everyone who took part in our cryptic crossword competition. What a smart bunch you Clu-blog readers are! If you haven't already tried to complete the crossword feel free to have a go now, but we're no longer taking Read more…
Italian Phishing scam
Phishing attacks are no longer a new topic in the cyber world. Recently, one of the major Australian banks have been the target of a phishing attack. It seems like there are no geographical boundaries to these phishing scams, they Read more…
Mac malware adopts porn video disguise
Earlier today, Pob in SophosLabs blogged about the discovery of two new pieces of malware for the Apple Mac OS X operating system. Although there is only a tiny amount of Mac malware compared to Windows viruses, that's going to Read more…
More Mac OS X malware discovered
Mac malware can seem like buses - you see none for ages and then two come along at once. Last night, SophosLabs was sent a message containing what claimed to be the "SRC CoDE of new Macintosh Worm" and so Read more…
Adobe releases its first Patch Tuesday security fixes
Adobe has released a fix for 13 different vulnerabilities in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat software, widely used to handle PDF files. It's critical that you patch your software as if a hacker exploited the vulnerabilities they could cause your Read more…
June 2009 Microsoft Security Bulletins
Microsoft has released the latest security bulletins and the security updates cover over 30 different vulnerabilities ranging from relatively moderate ones like Information disclosure in Windows Search functionality to several remote execution vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Excel and Word. As Read more…
Computer security cryptic crossword
In April, at the Infosec show in London, Sophos gave away a free newspaper including all kinds of interesting articles about computer security. It was a big hit (download it as a PDF, if you didn't manage to pick up Read more…
National E-Security Week in Australia
Sophos Australia is supporting the annual National E-security Awareness Week, in order to help raise awareness about the importance of e-security among folks down under. The week, being held from 5-12 June this year (I'm baffled as to why they Read more…
Safari 4.0 brings over 50 security patches
Apple has released a major new version of its Safari web browser for Mac OS X and Windows, fixing more than 50 vulnerabilities in the process. While most of the world's attention was diverted by Apple's announcement yesterday of the Read more…
FTC takes down 3FN
In slightly belated news, FTC had forced a shutdown of 3FN.net - a hosting company that was giving safe harbor to all sorts of cyber-criminal activity. As usual, Brian Krebs from the Washington Post provides an excellent overview of what Read more…
Keep an eye on your iPhone
Astute Sophos followers will remember that last year I hijacked the SophosLabs blog to bring news of the Apple WWDC 2008. Well this year, sat in the Moscone West digesting the content of Phil Schiller's keynote presentation and updating my Read more…
Why verified accounts won't kill off Twitter fraudsters
Twitter has announced on its blog that in the summer* it will be introducing a "Verified Accounts" feature for some of its more high profile users, designed to help reassure members that the account is real and not belonging to Read more…
You don't have a job? Get a Govt Grant
While monitoring SophosLabs' spam traps this morning I came across a proposition with the following subject: You don't have a job? Get a Govt Grant Several things stand out from this email that make me think it is something other than Read more…
Persistence is futile
Malware authors are constantly coming up with innovative mechanisms to persist their malware infections. One of the more creative samples I have come across recently would be Troj/FRuWL-Gen, which attempts a number of different tactics to remain unnoticed while resident Read more…
Off the rails: Twitter, passwords and Twittertrain
If someone promised they could get you hundreds of new followers on Twitter every day would you believe them? Would you be prepared to hand over your Twitter username and password to them? Well, a website called Twittertrain is promising Read more…
Twitter trends attacks
The size of Twitter community has reached the level to become very interesting for the malware writers. We have written several times before about the SEO attacks which attempt to use Google search trends to create pages with the high Read more…
Communist Party Of Britain's website infected with malware
This morning I noticed, via feedback from installation of WS1000 web security appliances, that the Communist Party Of Britain's website was serving Mal/Iframe-F. While not being the biggest political party in the UK this site would have expected high volumes Read more…
