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Anonymous bullies Sony and Nintendo over SOPA support
Anonymous is threatening companies like Sony and Nintendo over their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Will this accomplish their goals, or simply create more victims?
Controversial SOPA bill gets more heat from internet giants YouTube, Google and Wikipedia
Today is the day that the US's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill is scheduled to be voted on. And unsurprisingly, the who's who of Silicon Valley are not happy. Several web gurus have banded together to voice their dislike of the bill in an open letter.
Hackers could throw open prison doors, research shows
Research presented at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami late last month showed how hackers could take control of industrial control systems used in prisons.
Spam from Egypt vanishes after cutting off internet access
SophosLabs data confirms the nearly total isolation of Egypt from the internet. Spam received from Egyptian IP addresses has dropped more than 85% in the last 48 hours.
Comcast to provide new opportunities for fake AV
Comcast has announced they are beginning a nationwide roll out of their "Constant Guard" botnet detection service. Comcast is the largest cable internet service provider in the United States, so this could have a large impact on zombied US computers. Read more…
4chan takes on MPAA, RIAA and Aiplex... and wins
Update 3:BPI went down occasionally for short periods of time, but they seem to have gained the upper hand in defending their site. Update 2:RIAA is back online as of 9:10 PM Pacific time. The attack on the BPI is Read more…
The Pentagon awakens from cyberslumber
I must start this post by professing that I am a proud American citizen. I am proud of what my country stands for, its accomplishments and what its citizens are capable of when we come together for a common purpose. Read more…
Google collecting Wi-Fi data is not the problem
If you read the IT security rags this morning, you would think Google committed a major crime with all the bad press they've been getting. Granted, while driving down the street invading people's privacy with their car-mounted cameras, they should Read more…
Monetization of the Internet - User choice
When I started working in the computer security field 10 years ago, I would never have imagined that future battle lines would be drawn between legitimate online businesses and privacy warriors. Today aside from battling spammers, criminals, and ID thieves, Read more…
CanSecWest 2010 day 3 summary
The conference has now drawn to a close and Michael Argast and I have made CanSecWest this week's podcast topic. Our weekly podcasts have been going well so far and I would like to thank our editor/producer Maria Varmazis for Read more…
CanSecWest 2010 day 2 summary
The second day of CanSecWest was a beautiful day in Vancouver. The day was full of information-packed sessions and anticipation for the evening dinner party reception. "SEH overwrite and its exploitability - Shuichiro Suzuki" Shuichiro, who works for Forteenforty, demonstrated Read more…
CanSecWest 2010 Day 1
As a Vancouverite it always seemed to be a bit of a shame that I have never attended a CanSecWest conference. This year I am here, the 11th annual CanSecWest conference, and I would like to thank Dragos Ruiu for Read more…
Russians cooperate with FBI, arrest 3
The Financial Times reported this morning that the Russian FSB (the reincarnation of the KGB) detained three suspects in last year's RBS Worldpay payroll debit card scam. There were four major players, one of whom discovered the flaw in RBS's Read more…
Wanted: money launderers in Canada
One of my favorite things about having a blog at Sophos is the opportunity to share the stories that we research related to cybercrime. I was doing some work today in SophosLabs and stumbled upon an email trying to recruit Read more…
How Twitter spam steals from Google, Yahoo!
Scammers have been devising ways to ride on someone else's coattails since the dawn of time. With every new technology they find another way to make money from nothing. Today I am going to highlight a method that involves Twitter, Read more…
Tsunami blackhat SEO begins
Unfortunately, as Graham Cluley regularly blogs, any breaking news topic tends be exploited by hackers who use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to lure people to visit their malicious pages. Today's news of a large earthquake in Chile seems to be Read more…
Time to move on from IE6 exploits?
Guest blogger Sean Richmond from Sophos Australia (SophOz), wonders why organizations are still using Internet Explorer 6. One of my Twitter followers @mcbazza said a similar thing "I'm an IT professional, and not using WinXP and IE6 was my idea". Read more…
Google China may exit stage left
We are going on hour 12... What will Google do? It certainly is an interesting question. If you haven't seen the 300 stories on the Internet, Google has threatened to withdraw from the Chinese market amid concerns of security of Read more…
Congress looks to ban P2P file-sharing, will companies follow suit?
In the United States Congress yesterday, Representative Edolphus Towns of New York introduced a bill (HR 4098) to ban P2P file-sharing on US government, and government contractor computers. This bill was likely prompted by the reckless loss of sensitive government Read more…
iPhone worm: There isn't an app for that
Guest blogger Michael Argast, director of global sales engineering at Sophos, wondered why there aren't any security applications for iPhone. Michael has an iPhone that is not jail broken. The recent worm that is infecting jail broken iPhones is highlighting Read more…
