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- gcluley: Has Google said your PC is infected with DNS Changer malware? http://t.co/9muMA7zt43 minutes ago
- SophosSupport: Advisory: Sophos Endpoint v 9.5 and 9.7: automatic upgrade to v 10, reboot required: http://t.co/8KxlQ0Nq51 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 2 hours 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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June roundup – "90 Second News"
Don't just read the latest computer security news – watch it in 90 seconds! Learn how Facebook 'clickjacking' actually works. Find out why Google is in the dogbox over vulnerability disclosure. See which companies had PR disasters sending out malware Read more…
Australian airport security – does it break your IT department's policy?
Australian airport security generally requires that you take your laptop out of your bag and submit it separately for scanning. But anyone passing through the checkpoint can pick up another person's belongings, whether by accident or design. And non-travellers can Read more…
World Cup 2010 – will you get through without losing?
In 2006, Australia qualified for the World Cup by beating Uruguay in a final decider match at home in Sydney's Olympic Park. (The oddity of Australia qualifying via South America, not Asia, was finally rectified after the 2006 competition.) John Read more…
Apple's worst security breach, or a great big hyperbole?
According to aptly-named shock-gossip site gawker.com, Apple has just suffered its worst security breach. Alongside a headlined article entitled "Hottie Banker's Boob Implant Video: 'I Want to Be Tits on a Stick'", you can read how this "worst security breach" Read more…
Public unprivacy – is it all Google's fault?
Google is back under the pump in Australia over its recent WiFi muck-up. The search juggernaut's Street View cars apparently recorded – by accident – some 600GB of unencrypted WiFi data whilst tracking and storing access point names and MAC Read more…
Cybersecurity Awareness Week – here comes ICODE
The Aussie government's Cybersecurity Awareness Week (C-SAW) was launched in Melbourne today. Attorney-General Robert McClelland's opening speech declares that "the Government’s cyber safety policy focuses on protecting individuals, especially children, online from exposure to such things as illegal and offensive Read more…
Mac OS X OpinionSpy – same old, same old
Mac-centric anti-malware outfit Intego has been warning of a Mac application which the company is calling OpinionSpy. According to Intego, the OpinionSpy application is downloaded as an adjunct to various innocent-sounding Mac freeware, including screen savers offered by a company Read more…
May roundup – "90 Second News"
Last month I did my 90 Second News roundup in the week of Patch Tuesday. This month I'm a bit late, for which I apologise, but I was away at the AusCERT conference, setting cryptogram puzzles and dodging virus-infected USB Read more…
Friday evening @ Sydney Uni – time for some crypto!
Dear Diary, This afternoon I'm giving a guest lecture at the University of Sydney. It'll be a tough gig, but not just because it's at the end of the semester, doesn't affect the final course mark in any way, and Read more…
Sophos at AusCERT 2010 – #DecoDeme T-shirt puzzle text
AusCERT 2010 is starting in one hour. To help you enter the competition, and so you can spend this evening at the cocktail party, not typing in encoded text off the T-shirt, here it is in computer-friendly form: %~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~% |H4sIAAAAAAACA3P3dLOwTOxh| Read more…
Sophos at AusCERT 2010 – #DecoDeme
The annual AusCERT conference starts tomorrow evening, Sunday 16 May 2010, on Queensland's Gold Coast. If you are attending, don't forget to come past the Sophos stand to collect this year's edition of Sophos's sought-after DecoDeme T-shirt fashion range. In Read more…
Khobe "vulnerability" – no earth shaker
The security panic of the week is the widely-reported story of a "vulnerability" called Khobe. One news headline goes so far as to announce that this "new attack bypasses virtually all AV protection". I disagree. The sample "attack", which claims Read more…
A sparkling Crystal Anniversary
I was as pleased as Punch when the news broke that Apax Partners were buying a majority interest in Sophos. I very recently celebrated fifteen years at Sophos, so this turned out to be a fantastic anniversary treat for me. Read more…
Tallest security seminar in the world...in Australia
On Friday 07 May 2010, Sophos Australia and Security Software International are jointly hosting a security luncheon more than 285 metres above ground, on the top floor of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. Eureka Tower is currently the second-tallest residential Read more…
Have you ever bought via spam?
Spam is still at plague proportions, despite Bill Gates's prediction that it would be done and dusted by the start of 2006. In fact, these days we estimate that more than 95% of all email is spam. Which begs the 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…
Firefox update no April Fool
If you've just returned to work after the Easter long weekend, and you're a Firefox user, you might not yet realise that the guys at the Mozilla Foundation recently pushed out their 3.6.3 update, just ten days after releasing 3.6.2. Read more…
Scamming the scammers
Scammers use decoy documents (fake invoices, bogus airline tickets, imaginary lottery wins, political commentary on Tibet, information about World Cup 2010 fixtures, and so forth) to trick us into opening files which are dangerous. SophosLabs is pioneering techniques to use Read more…
What price privilege?
The Brisbane Times reports a worrying exchange of words in the Industrial Relations Commission – a senior barrister admitting that his laptop, containing three years' worth of work, was recently stolen. Amusingly, the BT further quotes the sinned-against silk as Read more…
US takes aim at Australian head-in-sand internet security
According to media reports in Australia, even the US Department of State is now laying into the Rudd government's internet filtering plan. According to The Punch, the Americans are against the Australian proposal because it "runs contrary to stated US Read more…
