Sophos principal virus researcher Vanja Svajcer guest blogs about the latest security updates from Adobe. Over to you Vanja...
Users around the world will be pleased to learn that Adobe has managed to release an accelerated security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB10-15) before the planned release date (13th July). The latest version of Adobe [...]Clearly Sophos's Carole Theriault is enjoying the power of guest-blogging. Here she is again, doing a favour for our UK marketing department who have an Apple iPad that they're dying to give away. The floor is yours Carole...
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I know I'd love one - a couple of weeks ago [...]Guest blogger Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at Sophos, ruminates on the big red switch that President Obama might want installed in the Oval Office. Over to you Carole...
Proposed US legislation, now approved by the US Senate committee, has been making headlines this month.
Bill S.3480, also known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National [...]Ben Jupp, a Sophos technical specialist who lives and breathes all-things Mac, Linux and Unix, ponders Apple's attitude to security. Over to you Ben..
Apple gets a pretty rough press when it comes to security and to be honest I think it's deserved. This isn't to say that I think Apple never thinks about security; [...]
Glamorous Bollywood actress Meghna Naidu has contacted the computer crime police in Mumbai, after her email and Facebook account were compromised by a hacker.
31-year-old Naidu, who I'm reliably informed is well known as a "sizzling hot Bollywood babe" in the subcontinent, lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) after friends reported receiving [...]
Spam never ceases to amaze me. The latest phishing scam I’ve seen is spammers impersonating CartaSi, the Italian financial institution. The message subject is “Effettuare l’aggiornamento dei dati,” which means to proceed with the data or information update. This email even carries an introduction that educates users about phishing on the web. The scammers provide [...]
FBI agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into more than 100 computers, and using personal information stolen from them to extort sexually explicit videos of young women and teenage girls.
31-year-old Luis Mijangos, of Santa Ana, California, was apprehended by the authorities after a six-month long investigation into his involvement in computer hacking, identity [...]Targeted attacks occur when cybercriminals launch malware against a specific organisation, industry or government department. In recent years we've often seen these distributed in the form of booby-trapped Word documents or malformed Adobe PDF files.
Overnight we intercepted an attack against a firm working in the defence industry (which we will not name for obvious [...]Rich Baldry, a product manager based in our Vancouver offices, discusses an exciting new security feature that will benefit everybody who browses the web away from their office. Over to you Rich..
The Winter Olympics may have been and gone, but here at Sophos Vancouver, we’re still pretty excited.
In case you missed it, Sophos recently announced [...]
Britain's Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) have announced today that they have arrested two men as part of an eight month investigation into what is said to be the world's largest English-speaking online cybercrime forum.
The underground website consisted of online forums where up to 8000 malicious hackers traded stolen bank account details, PIN details, phished [...]