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- gcluley: Has Google said your PC is infected with DNS Changer malware? http://t.co/9muMA7zt39 minutes ago
- SophosSupport: Advisory: Sophos Endpoint v 9.5 and 9.7: automatic upgrade to v 10, reboot required: http://t.co/8KxlQ0Nq47 minutes ago
- SophosLabs: 4 yrs jail for man who masterminded Bredolab botnet of 30 million computers http://t.co/yq2q5tkG #huzzah!about 1 hour ago
- SophosLabs: Learn more about analog computing - and Bob Moog! http://t.co/B0dQjMdkabout 1 hour ago
- gcluley: DDoS attack brings down UK webhosting firm 123-reg http://t.co/kMwKEhRS (via @regvulture)about 2 hours ago
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Pepper spray-armed ATM misfires
According to media reports, a bank in Cape Town, South Africa, has equipped its cash machines with pepper spray to deter criminals from tampering and stealing money. Absa Bank has installed the disorientating pepper spray in 11 of its ATMs, Read more…
Sophos and Utimaco in perfect harmony
It's an exciting day at Sophos, because we've completed the operational integration of Utimaco. That means that our global support, sales operations, HR, IT, marketing and finance teams are truly working as one, and we're operating as one company. Huzzah! Read more…
A good use for a keylogger?
Normally when I discuss keyloggers on the Clu-blog it's in relation to identity thieves stealing your usernames and passwords as you bank online. But Lenovo appears to have found a positive use - as they've used keylogging software to help Read more…
Iranian media falls for Obama BlackBerry hack hoax
A news website in Iran has been left with egg on its face after falling for a "joke" story about Barack Obama's BlackBerry being hacked, and secret emails between the US President and his closest aides being released to the Read more…
Helsinki named Klingon-speaking capital of the world
I thought I had probably written all there was to say about Klingon Anti-Virus, but looking at the topic again we've uncovered something really interesting. For a bit of fun, we decided to look at our weblogs to see if Read more…
Klingon Anti-Virus - the facts
A number of people have contacted me today asking why I haven't commented on the numerous news stories (click on each link) about a version of Sophos Anti-Virus available in the Klingon language. (Enjoy this video? You can check out Read more…
Stop staff plugging their body parts into your PCs
When is a thumb drive, not a thumb drive? When it's a finger drive! Finnish software engineer Jerry Jalava lost one half of his left ring finger in a motorcycle accident last year. The inventive computer programmer from Helsinki had Read more…
Bishop of Manchester struck dumb by virus
According to media reports, a virus has been found on the computer of Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester, removing his ability to send or receive emails since 3rd March. Furthermore, technicians brought in by the Church of England to Read more…
The mystery of Symantec and PIFTS.EXE
The internet is full of babble today - and a fair amount of conspiracy theories - after users of Symantec's Norton anti-virus products began to see firewall alerts asking them if they wanted to trust a program called PIFTS.EXE. Hundreds Read more…
Real-life worm causes computer crash
When Mark Taylor's old laptop crashed he suspected he might have an unwelcome visitor. Maybe a virus or Trojan horse had managed to infect his PC while he was visiting a website or after opening an email? Or perhaps a Read more…
Hacked road sign warns of British invasion
First there was a warning that there were zombies on the road ahead, now another hacked road sign is spreading news that the British are invading America. According to media reports, an electronic road sign being used by construction workers Read more…
Wanted: Can you speak Klingon? No time wasters please
Pardon me for interrupting the normal stream of security-related stories here to ask something a little out of the ordinary, but I figured you folks wouldn't mind. Do you speak Klingon? Actually, most importantly, can you translate things into Klingon? Read more…
Motorists warned of "Zombies Ahead" on hacked road sign
Normally when I am writing about zombies and hackers I'm discussing the threat of cybercriminals commandeering innocent people's PCs to turn them into a spam-spewing botnet. This one is a bit different however. As reported by Fox News, hackers in Read more…
Answers on a postcard please..
I'm always happy to get feedback on stories I've featured on the Clu-blog. At the moment you have to drop me an email, but I'm hopeful that soon I'll get the web wizards to give us a comment facility up Read more…
Safe-cracker arrested after police post CCTV photos on Facebook
Regular readers of this blog must be getting used to hearing stories about criminals breaking into users' Facebook and Twitter accounts to cause mischief and make a quick buck. Well, here's a story of a rather different break-in that involved Read more…
Zune Leap Year bug under the microscope
More information about the non-virus problem which hung 30GB Zune MP3 players on New Year's Eve has been uncovered. It turns out that the problem is actually on the clock chip from Freescale embedded inside Microsoft's music device. As you Read more…
Zunes crash - but it's a bug, not a virus
Yesterday, December 31st 2008, owners of Microsoft's Zune MP3 player found that their devices were freezing at start-up. The internet was bombarded by reports from 30GB Zune owners, concerned that their MP3 player may have been stricken by an astonishingly Read more…
Phreaking hackers hit man with $53,000 phone bill
A Canadian businessman has been lumbered with a Canadian $52,359.59 (US $43,000) phone bill after a hacker broke into his voicemail system and spent nearly three weeks making phone calls to Bulgaria. According to media reports from Bulgaria and Canada, Read more…
A virus romantic movie?
Word reaches me via MTV that a movie is coming out inspired, in part, by the Love Bug worm which infected computers worldwide in May 2000. The movie, entitled "Subject: I love you", stars American actress Briana Evigan (who I Read more…
Woman accused of hacking her virtual husband to death
My guess is that many of you are still working hard on rolling that critical Microsoft security patch across your business - so here's a quirky story for you to cheer you up this Friday. A Japanese player of the Read more…
