Sophos will be out in force at the RSA Conference in San Francisco next week, giving you the opportunity to see our products in action and meet (amongst others) bloggers Paul Ducklin, Chet Wisniewski and err.. me.
Topically enough, considering everything that has been going on this week, I'll be giving presentations and demonstrations about threats [...]Ed Miliband MP, the high profile British Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, has fallen victim to the current swathe of phishing attacks sweeping the Twitter system.
Mr Miliband, who is a member of Gordon Brown's cabinet, appears to have been careless with his computer security and handed his Twitter username and password over to hackers, [...]Plenty of Twitter users must be finding the spate of spam and phishing attacks that have plagued them this week pretty tedious by now.
The latest message being spammed out claims to come from a young woman:
hi, i'm 24/female/horny... i have to get off here but message me on my windows live messenger name <username>@hotmail.com
Hilariously, this [...]Sally in the marketing department has put together a really handy package, which will help you educate your users about social networking threats. And the best news of all is that it's completely free! Tell us all about it Sally..
Hi, I'm Sally Adam from the Sophos marketing team and I'm hijacking Graham's blog to [...]
Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at Sea World in Orlando, was killed yesterday after being attacked by a killer whale.
News of the tragedy sped quickly around the world, and now sick cybercriminals are exploiting the story of 40-year-old Brancheau's death for their own commerical gain.
Through SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques, hackers have created webpages stuffed with [...]Camera-phobic guest blogger Kim Charlton, who manages the beta program at Sophos, wants to bribe you into helping us improve our products. Over to you Kim..
It's beta time again and I am once again on the lookout for people to trial our latest offerings.
This time I have two beta programs running almost concurrently (I obviously [...]There is another widespread phishing attack hitting users of Twitter today.
Messages asking "This you????" followed by a link are being sent via the system to unsuspecting users. If you click on the link you are taken to a fake Twitter login page, where hackers are just waiting for you to hand over your credentials. [...]Those terribly nice folks at SC Magazine are running a number of online polls on their homepage in the run-up to their awards ceremony at the RSA Conference.
The poll for the most popular security blogger caught my eye in particular.. :)
Seriously, there are some awesome security bloggers listed there, and even being shortlisted in such [...]The Federal Trade Commission has notified close to 100 US organisations of serious P2P-related security breaches that have exposed consumers to the risk of identity theft and fraud.
The use of P2P file-sharing networks to download music and movies opens the door for data loss both in the office and on consumers' personal PCs, when [...]Liviu Iftode and Vinod Ganapathy, two researchers at Rutgers University, have revealed some experiments they have been conducting, showing how rootkits could be used to take control of smartphones.
The scientists have shown that a malicious attacker could cause a smartphone to "eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to [...]
In recent weeks, various cybercrime attacks have disrupted the computer systems that allow nations to manage their national greenhouse-gas emissions quotas and their possession of carbon assets according to international agreements (the Kyoto Protocol and the European system). One quota is the right to emit the equivalent of one ton of carbon dioxide during a specified period.
The [...]