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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: April 2010
By Zeus! Malware makes the headlines
A report on the BBC News website today reports that the "Zeus banking virus is back". To which my response is, "did it ever leave?" Zeus (also known as ZBot) is a family of malware that is capable of hijacking Read more…
"Please attention!" fake DHL delivery emails contain malware
It's another day, which means (almost inevitably) there's another malicious email campaign carrying a fake anti-virus attack. Once again the bad guys are packaging their attack in an email which claims to come from DHL Delivery Services. A typical email, Read more…
Postal-themed PDF Spam
The Bredo malware-spammers are back, and they've been reading about how to run executable files from a PDF using /Launch, a trick we'd already started to see used by malware. This latest spam campaign uses this technique (it's not really Read more…
Sophos charters Boeing 737 to rescue staff stranded by volcano fall-out
Many of you have been following the ongoing saga of the attempts by almost 600 Sophos staff to get home from a conference that we were holding in Berlin. Many of our sales and marketing staff have been stranded in Read more…
Malicious messages of love spammed out by hackers
You should be wary of unsolicited messages of love that arrive in your email inbox. That's the warning I'm issuing following a malicious campaign orchestrated by cybercriminals that is hitting email systems around the world as I type. Emails which Read more…
Facebook privacy given a poor scorecard by WhatApp project
Facebook has been rated lower than its social networking competitors Twitter and MySpace for privacy and security, according to a study from Stanford University. According to a report in Forbes, the WhatApp website has rated the security and privacy of Read more…
Win an X-Mini II portable speaker - just take a Sophos survey
Last week when I travelled to Germany I bought myself a pocket-sized speaker that I could plug into my smartphone to listen to music and podcasts. The X-Mini II is a great little device, capable of being playing decent-sounding music Read more…
New Mac backdoor Trojan horse discovered
Pinhead or HellRTS? What's in a name? Mac malware is making the headlines again - this time in the form of a remote access trojan which has been given the name OSX/HellRTS.D by French security firm Intego. The folks at Read more…
Software design lessons learnt from a sleeper train
Rich Baldry, a product manager based in our Vancouver offices, found himself with some time to kill on his (prolonged) journey across Europe this weekend, and has jotted down some thoughts regarding good software design. Over to you Rich.. Along Read more…
A whinge about EuroStar
This has nothing to do with computer security - but I wanted to let off some steam about EuroStar. Like hundreds of thousands of others I have been stranded for the last few days in Europe, trying to get back Read more…
How many ways are there for dodgy installation in Windows Registry?
Many different malware tend to patch or insert entries into the Windows Registry in order to be automatically launched after each reboot. And the number of "creative" ideas these malware authors come up with doesn't seem to cease anytime soon. Read more…
New monthly roundup – "90 Second News"
I've decided to start doing a monthly news roundup in what I refer to as vodcast format (apologies if I am misusing this term – vodcast, that is, not format). This is a podcast/video mashup aimed at making security news Read more…
Hundreds of Sophos employees stranded in Berlin by volcano fall-out
I'm writing to you from the bar of the Maritim Hotel in Berlin, where hundreds of Sophos staff are currently stranded because of the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. Airflights across North Europe are suspended because of the volcanic ash, Read more…
The Art Of Proactive Detection
In the latest Virus Bulletin comparative test of anti-malware products, it was extremely heartening to see Sophos earning a very respectable score in terms of proactive detection rates (see Graham Cluley's blog post here). But what is meant by proactive Read more…
Anti-virus products compared in proactive test
Yesterday I told you about the latest comparative test of anti-malware products published by the folks at Virus Bulletin. As The Register reports, 20 out of the 60 security products tested by the independent testing body failed to receive the Read more…
Events and blackhat SEO
It's quite a busy month for Sophos. I am writing this from Berlin, Germany attending Sophos's annual sales conference. The weather hasn't been great, but as always it is good to see so many colleagues from around the world and Read more…
Encrypting everything isn't the whole story
I'm not usually given to marketroidistic behaviour (also known as "making shameless product plugs"), but I'm willing to give it a try once in a while. So here goes. We've just announced the latest version of our Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise Read more…
April 2010 - Patch Tuesday's Vulnerability Analysis
April thus far has been a busy month for administrators tasked with applying updates. As announced, Microsoft released 11 bulletins today. 8 RCEs, 1 DoS, 1 spoofing and 1 privilege escalation. Microsoft's breakdown went along the lines of: 5 critical, Read more…
VB100 win for Sophos in Virus Bulletin's largest ever comparative review
The April edition of Virus Bulletin has just been published, including the largest ever comparative review in the magazine's 21 year history. A total of 60 anti-virus products running on the Windows XP platform were put to the test, producing Read more…
Public privacy
The Minister of Transport for New South Wales, David Campbell, announced at the start of this week the name of the successful bidder for Sydney's new electronic ticketing system. The new system is supposed to deliver integrated contactless electronic ticketing Read more…
