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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: December 2009
The Greys & Politics
No I don't mean government policy on little men in flying saucers, our Klingon subscribers might object to that. I refer to the occasions when deciding what is malicious can become uncertain and a potentially political question. Often we find Read more…
Naked elves distract nerds
What's the best way to distract an online gamer while you drop some undesirable files onto their system? We saw what's probably a pretty effective method today in Troj/Lneage-A. This particular Trojan leaves the user viewing a slideshow of topless Read more…
Facebook safety and privacy in podcast and video
This podcast with Sean Richmond, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos Australia, examines Sophos's 2009 Facebook ID Probe, which suggests that social networkers are too open with personal information. Many people want to know, "Does it really matter?" In this podcast, Read more…
12 tips of Christmas - A safer Twitter for 2010
As we roll into the holiday season and many of us are taking more time away from work to spend with our families, we inevitably geek out. We have more time to read blogs, play video games, and reach out Read more…
Tiger still hot stuff
Despite talk of Tiger Woods' sponsors "limiting his role" in their advertising campaigns, he is still very much hot stuff when it comes to search engine queries which means he's still a viable target for the malware writers. We can Read more…
Christmas, Amazon and Zbot - it's that time of year again.
"All I want for Christmas is ... a zbot.exe". If you are too cheerfully ignorant when opening e-cards this holiday season, that's just what you'll end up with. Be especially careful when you receive messages from those close personal contacts Read more…
Active Sinowal distribution
A couple of days ago I posted about some interested malicious PDFs we were seeing in high numbers. Further investigation revealed the payload of these attacks to be Sinowal (aka Mebroot). Well, I should say predominantly Sinowal, because we have Read more…
Fake Apple Software Store Spam
Recently, I received an email from what appeared to be an Apple software store with a catchy subject line of "huge discount of up to 80% off Apple software". Wow! What a great offer this is! I immediately opened the Read more…
Scribble malware scrambled
Since we first mentioned it on the blog we have seen rather a lot of our favourite polymorphic, mid-infecting friend that is the W32/Scribble virus. So much so that it has almost become a nuisance for us. But not quite... Read more…
Facebook privacy settings: What you need to know
Facebook is making big changes to its privacy settings that may mean millions of people begin to expose information that they previously considered to be restricted to only their Facebook friends to the entire internet. This YouTube video explains more. Read more…
Will RAM scraping loosen the sky and make it fall?
The Henny Penny story of the moment concerns something called RAM scraping, which has the headline-friendly characteristics of sounding not just new and dangerous, but also painful and probably interestingly distasteful. A recently-released data breach report identifies RAM scraping malware Read more…
My encounters with the greatest Britons in IT history
Christmas came early for me this weekend, when I heard that journalists Iain Thomson and Shaun Nicholls had compiled their list of "Top 10 Great Britons in IT history". It's a great read - celebrating the enormous achievements of the Read more…
Sarah Palin hacker suspect had spyware-infected PC
The 21-year-old student accused of hacking into Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's Yahoo account was working on a spyware-infected computer, according to his legal team. David Kernell was mid-way through a student party in September 2008, when the FBI swooped Read more…
Yuletide PDF gymnastics
Whilst browsing some reports yesterday, I noticed an unexpected detection at the top of the charts. Over the past few days, Troj/PDFJs-ER is neck and neck with Mal/Iframe-F as the most prevalent item of malware currently being detected on web Read more…
'Jobs with Google': Search engine giant sues alleged scammers
According to reports, Google has filed a law suit against a US firm alleged to have used their trademark to advertise "working from home" kits. Salt Lake City-based Pacific WebWorks is in the firing line because of allegations that it Read more…
Black Tuesday - and December so far...
Well December's not looking so bad. Microsoft have released all their security bulletins for the month. (I hope - MS09-072 addresses last month's out of band security advisory 977981) Out of this month's batch, Microsoft has rated 3 as critical Read more…
An internet Green Cross Code for kids
English primary schoolchildren (5-11 years old) will be taught about how to stay safe on the internet from 2011, as part of a Government awareness strategy being unveiled today called "Click Clever, Click Safe". Echoing the "Green Cross Code" which Read more…
Danger lies in bogus emails claiming to be from DHL and Facebook
Malicious hackers are posing as DHL and social networking site Facebook in their latest attempts to infect computers with malware. Today we are seeing widespread spam campaigns being cannoned around the world, posing as messages from the companies. However, files Read more…
Evil Maids on the rise
The opportunities for evil maids seems to be soaring. Some weeks ago, I blogged about how a malicious room maid could install a software password sniffer on a portable PC with TrueCrypt Full Disk Encryption (FDE) - needing only a Read more…
Could a rubber duck steal your identity on Facebook?
Two years ago, I took a small plastic frog given to me by my nephew, and used it to demonstrate how easy it was to extract personal information from complete strangers on Facebook. Now, Sophos's Australian office has conducted the Read more…
