February 28, 2010 - News of a performer killer whale allegedly killing its trainer made the headlines this week. Dawn Branchaeu, an animal trainer in SeaWorld Florida, was attacked by one of the trained killer whales last Wednesday. This sad event, unfortunately, paved the (continue reading...) Read more
February 28, 2010 - Hi everyone, On Friday 2/26/2010, an issue was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then (continue reading...) Read more
February 28, 2010 - On Friday, I blogged saying that Old websites don’t die they just get infected the other scenario is that they become part of a spammers SEO campaign. Working today, I went to check to see if the local police (continue reading...) Read more
February 27, 2010 - Over 13% of all searches on Google looking for popular and trending topics will lead to malicious links and searching for the latest news on the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami hitting Hawaii are no exception. Both are (continue reading...) Read more
February 27, 2010 - A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010. The quake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale was considerably stronger than the one that recently caused (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - VirusTotal has been well known to most readers of the blog. It’s a free virus and malware online scan service which allows submitters to test a particular file against a multitude of malware scanners. So, it’s not highly surprising (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - Are malware authors and spammers suffering from the same affliction of “word salad“, or are they perhaps devoted students of Afringlish? Why (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - In February, Russia celebrates one of the most important “man” holidays of the whole year: "The Day of the Defender of the Motherland." On this day, all Russian men and boys are congratulated. The holiday refers to the heroes of (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.The Register – which is worth reading twice a day for its insanely funny headlines if nothing else – is reporting that a hacker (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV software).Our (environmentally conscious) researcher Adam Thomas heard about a “green” hot water heater (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - VirusTotal.com is a brilliant site that helps both public and researchers alike determine if an executable file they have is potentially malicious or not.Julio Canto (of VirusTotal fame) has noticed that somebody decided to cash in (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - How about those Olympics, huh??? I’m watching as much as I can – and I don’t even consider myself a huge sports buff. (Well, except for baseball. I love it!) There is just something so exciting about the (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - On February 2, Dennis Blair, the new Director of National Intelligence, gave testimony alongside the heads of the CIA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency, to warn Congress that malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - It’s been ten years already; can you believe it? I’m talking about the U.S. Census. It’s been ten years since the last one. Time to do it again. No, it wasn’t on my calendar either. To remind all of us (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - Computer-based attacks are being leveraged by miscreants to gain a global economic and informational advantage over others. This is the message presented by ScanSafe’s 2009 Annual Global Threat Report, which was released last week. Over the course of (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - Readers of the Sophos blogs will probably have seen the post Graham made about the ‘killer whale video’ SEO attacks. We have described SEO attacks before (for example here). In this post I want to highlight how these (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - Earlier this week Sophos informed a UK Local Police Authority (Hertfordshire) that a website they owned was infected with Troj/IFrame-DY. It turns out that the Police Authority has a new site and the infected site is an old one (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2010 - Imagine that you’re sitting at home catching up on your email backlog. In comes an email from your ISP, FooBarBazCo (some creativity required here, I know). The email seems to be from Technical Support – ‘From: FooBarBazCo.com Team’ – and (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2010 - Very funny:The story starts with an guy insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2010 - How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates? How many discussion boards or blogs or pictures or games do you need to maintain in each network service? (continue reading...) Read more