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- SophosSupport: New Sophos Complete Security Suites: endpoint, data, email, web, mobile & groupware protection—on one license: http://t.co/13FVvp42about 2 hours ago
- SophosSupport: Scheduled Downtime. SophosTalk may be down for up to 2 hours today May 16, 2012 between 12:01am & 4:00am PDT (GMT -7:00) for scheduled work.about 2 hours ago
- gcluley: RT @NakedSecurity: Global Payments breach continues to bewilder, accusations abound http://t.co/AI64bgeeabout 3 hours ago
- duckblog: Congrats to #sophospuzzle winners at #auscert - David Zielezna and Phil Kernick - one prize still open to all online.about 5 hours ago
- duckblog: #sophospuzzle Stage 2 hint/discovery: if using simulation, even C's rand() with just 100,000 sample hands is about good enoughabout 11 hours ago
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