April 23, 2012 - Avast! Free Antivirus 7 has the distinction of being the only free antivirus to receive the Advanced Plus certification rating from the annual “On-Demand Detection of Malicious Software” (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - SophosLabs reports on the top twelve spam relaying countries for January - March 2012. Read more
April 22, 2012 - Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin chat about the security issues surrounding Apple's new iTunes security, knowledge-based authentication, Mac malware and Google's fine from the FCC. Read more
April 21, 2012 - As written in our “Password management for non-obvious accounts” blog post on February 22, the FBI confiscated the DNS Servers used by the DNS Changer malware and replaced them with different servers so that infected users would not (continue reading...) Read more
April 20, 2012 - SophosLabs is intercepting a spammed-out malware campaign, pretending to be an email about a revealing photo posted online of the recipient. The emails, which have a variety of subject lines and message bodies, arrive with an attached ZIP file (IMG0893.zip) which (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Missing homework used to be blamed on the family dog, but now the focus has shifted to the computer. And sometimes – as this user note shows – malware really is (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Your mobile phone may arguably be your new best friend. There are few people, places, or things in our lives today that get as many hours of attention as your mobile phone or is with you as often (and for (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2012 - User education is of course a great idea, but we all know how hard it is to get the messages across in a clear and memorable way. Sophos launches a free education toolkit to help the poor IT guys who (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2012 - Tempted to try out the much talked about Instagram app? Well, be careful where you get it from - as malware authors are distributing malware disguised as the popular app. Read more
April 18, 2012 - If your PC is bogged down with useless software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is the increased likelihood that if you have lost (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2012 - Today, we’re launching a new freeware tool, Shim Cache Parser™, which we developed in the course of our incident response investigations. During keyword searches of compromised systems, we discovered known malicious file names in the Windows Registry. Further research showed (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Flaming Retort is back, this time trying to Coole and Explayne the flames we've had from some Mac users in the past few days. In a back-to-front way of making Mac fans feel better, I'll start by making everyone feel slightly (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - There were lots of fantastic presentations at BSides Austin last week, here are a few of our favorites. Read more
April 16, 2012 - A new version of the Mac OS X Sabpab Trojan horse has come to light, and rather than relying upon a Java vulnerability - it appears to be exploiting malformed Word documents instead. (continue reading...) Read more
April 13, 2012 - The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called MRT (Malware Removal (continue reading...) Read more
April 13, 2012 - More Mac malware has been discovered, capable of giving remote hackers access to your Apple Mac. Isn't it time you ran anti-virus software on your Mac? Read more
April 13, 2012 - Recently we discovered a new Android Trojan in the official Google Play market that displays a video downloaded from the Internet–but only if some sensitive information is previously sent to a remote server. The malicious applications are designed (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Apple has delivered - or so it says - on its promise to provide a Flashback malware removal tool, wrapped in another Java update. Read more
April 12, 2012 - Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in serious injury or even death. TechNewsWorld (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah (continue reading...) Read more