Security breaches, laptop theft, and identity theft happen all the time, and these crimes increase every year. The need for people to become more aware of their digital presence and the threats surrounding it is vital.
The pace at which these threats increase is much faster than our awareness grows, making a bad situation. One way [...]
It has been revealed that British police have arrested a 23-year-old man accused of stealing virtual characters and goods from players of one of the world's most popular online games.
The man, from the Avon & Somerset region, was arrested last Tuesday by officers of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), after allegedly phishing the usernames [...]Cybercriminals have wasted no time taking advantage of the news that the world's number one golfer, Tiger Woods, has been involved in a car accident outside his house in Florida.
Hackers have created webpages claiming to contain video content related to the accident where Tiger Woods reportedly crashed his car into a fire hydrant and tree [...]
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is arguing in the British media that company board members need to wake up to the issues of securing personal information or risk substantial fines.
The warning comes as it was revealed that a laptop containing the personal data of some 110,000 people, revealing their names and addresses, dates of birth [...]
According to media reports, British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has rejected a last-bid attempt by Gary McKinnon's supporters to prevent his extradition to the United States.
Concerns have been raised that 43-year-old McKinnon, who was arrested almost eight years ago after allegedly hacking into computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department [...]
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a phenomenally popular series of video games where players stealthily creep up behind the bad guys and silently ermm.. "despatch them".
The trick to succeed is stay in the shadows, sneak up on the enemy on tiptoe, causing distractions to waltz past them or quietly "neutralise" them as a threat.
The "stealth" [...]The cyberscoundrels are up to their dirty rotten tricks again, sending fake emails pretending to be notifications from DHL that there is a parcel that you should pick up.
Attached to the emails is a ZIP file called UOYKCUFSBERKNAIBR.zip which contains a malicious threat. Sophos detects the malware proactively as Mal/EncPk-LE. Users of other [...]
The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer.
21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns, revealed that he was going to join mogeneration (What is it with companies who insist on being spelt in lowercase? Does anyone really think that [...]
I've had a good night's sleep, but I'm still feeling rather incredulous about what happened at last night's Computer Weekly awards in London.
Winner:
IT Security blog of the year - Graham Cluley's blog, Sophos
Winner:
Twitter user of the year - @gcluley
Winner:
Overall Best blog - Graham Cluley's blog, Sophos
I feel honoured to have had so many people vote [...]
Since the late 1990s some doom-mongers in the computer security industry have been predicting a tidal wave of mobile phone viruses, impacting every hoody-wearing happy-slappy ringtone-downloading ASBO-carrying teenager in the land.
The reality has been rather different. Although some cellphone malware has emerged it should be regarded as a tiny drop in the ocean compared [...]David Clowney is not unusual in being a 24-year-old who is hooked on Twitter.
No, what makes David Clowney stand out from the crowd is that he's a talented American football player, who appears for the New York Jets. And now, like other celebrities before him, his Twitter account has been hacked.
What is perhaps bizarre [...]