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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: November 2009
13 years jail for bank robbers who used Trojan horse
Four London-based men, found guilty of using a sophisticated Trojan horse to steal money from online bank accounts, have been sentenced to a total of over 13 years in prison by a British court. The malware deployed by Azamat Rahmonov, Read more…
Hackers break into controversial WWII historian's AOL account
World War II historian David Irving is a highly controversial figure. In 2006 he was jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, and his recent speaking tour of America has been dogged by protesters. The latest headache for the 71-year-old Read more…
Palestinian suspected of phishing Israeli bank accounts
The Israeli media is reporting that authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Palestinian man in relation to a phishing attack against customers of two banks. The man, who has not been named, was arrested by the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) and Read more…
Don't buy drugs online, don't put your health at risk
I posted earlier today about the millions of dollars that hackers are making promoting pharmaceutical websites. Aside from the risk that, if you buy medication from a fake pharmaceutical website, you are handing them your credit card information - you Read more…
Swine flu fears making millionaires out of Russian hackers
As the number of reported swine flu cases climbs, it's time a strong message was sent out against buying Tamiflu over the internet. Research published by Sophos exposes the profit model of the Russian cybercriminals making millions of pounds from Read more…
Katya, My Queen-To-Be
Do you think she's hot? Her name's Katya and she is my latest entry to my long list of "girlfriend-wannabe" / "potential one-night-stands". If my mum were to find out about her, she will definitely give me a hard backhand Read more…
Malware, but only for a second in a day
Malware authors and software-protectionists alike go to great lengths to obfuscate and contort their code in an attempt to hide or obscure its true nature [2]. The assumption being that it is difficult for human or machine to make sense Read more…
Alert! Conflicker detected! ... or is it?
Today we have spotted a batch of messages arriving in our spam systems titled "Conflicker.B Infection Alert". The message goes like this: Dear Microsoft Customer, Starting 12/11/2009 the "˜Conficker' worm began infecting Microsoft customers unusually rapidly. Microsoft has been advised Read more…
Email from Vodafone or Verizon about an over limit credit balance? Beware!
Email users around the world are being finding messages in their inbox today claiming to come from mobile phone operator Vodafone. The emails, which have the subject line "Your credit balance is over its limit" and claim to come from Read more…
Famous chip shop website battered by malicious Iframe injection
Before everybody peruses the 'net in search of their fish supper this cold and wet Friday night.* Stop!! Do you have adequate protection? For your Internet browsing? Earlier this week SophosLabs spotted that the famous chip shop brand Harry Ramsden's Read more…
Britney Spears has her Twitter account hacked again
Just over two months ago I explained on Twitter why I was following Britney Spears. In a nutshell, I follow Britney on Twitter not because I'm interested in her music or her complicated private life, but because it's the best Read more…
Handing over your password is just an app away
I was checking my personal Twitter feed today and saw friends posting how long they've been tweeting along with a link. The tweet looked something like this: "Tweeting for # years, # months, # weeks, # day, # hours, # Read more…
Tool for hacking jailbroken iPhones discovered
According to The Register and others, a tool which allows hackers to break into jailbroken iPhones and steal information has been discovered. Following closely in the footsteps of the first iPhone worm (known as Ikee) which hunted for jailbroken iPhones Read more…
Duck savages Ikee iPhone worm author
Sophos's Paul Ducklin has been voicing some strong opinions. There's nothing new about that, of course, as you'll know if you're a regular follower of his blog. This time, though, Duck, is explaining why he can't excuse the author of Read more…
November's Patch-Tuesday roundup...
This month's "Patch Tuesday" includes 6 security updates - of which Microsoft has rated 3 as Critical (all remote code execution vulnerabilities) and 3 Important (two remote code execution vulnerabilities and one denial of service). Mention-worthy updates this month include Read more…
Controlling your info...by hijacking your group
I saw in the news today about Facebook groups being hijacked through a design flaw. When a group is created on Facebook, you have the option of it being an open group (anyone can join) or a closed group (invite Read more…
Phish... it's what's for dinner
I've been watching the latest phishing attack happening on Twitter for the last week or so. It seems to be one major campaign that keeps changing the DM (direct message) text every couple of hours. It's been messages like "woah... Read more…
Extremely critical Mac OS X patch plugs 58 security holes
Yesterday Apple issued a fix for 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system, many of which could lead to hackers running malicious code and hijacking your Apple Mac. The update to version 10.6.2 of Mac OS X Snow Read more…
Fedor Fans Beware
For those of you who aren't mixed martial arts fans, this past Saturday night was the Strikeforce television event where one of the worlds greatest fighters Fedor Emelianenko fought Brett Rogers, and what a fight it was. It was a Read more…
Looking for source code for the ikee iPhone worm? Sorry
Are you trying to find the source code for the ikee iPhone worm? It seems a fair few people are, at least judging by the statistics I've seen for my blog today. The raw statistics are apparently a closely guarded Read more…
