May 4, 2012 - With the Olympics coming to London, there may be opportunities for criminals, hacktivists and mischief-makers to make a high profile attack against the event's computer systems. But what about your own computers, and your personal data and finances? (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2012 - Once again, cybercriminals have spammed out emails claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), with the intention of infecting Windows computers with malware. Read more
April 30, 2012 - SophosLabs has been intercepting an X-rated spam campaign, designed to promote hardcore porn websites. Emails have been spammed out purporting to have an adult video attached, using a variety of names. Read more
April 27, 2012 - Have you seen a message on Facebook saying that free pairs of Ray-Bans or TOMS shoes are being given away to users? Don't believe it. Read more
April 25, 2012 - Symantec is intercepting a resurgence of spam attacks on popular brands. Spam messages that are replicas of the Wikipedia email address confirmation alert are the new vector for the present. The said spam messages pretend to be originating from Wikipedia, and are (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - Facebook has announced that it is teaming up with a number of security vendors, including Sophos. Read more
April 25, 2012 - Go through your smartphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth upgrading to the paid versions, since free apps that contain (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - As Pinterest's popularity increases, so do the reports of spam on the fast-growing photo-sharing network. Is the website doing enough to counter the threat? Read more
April 23, 2012 - SophosLabs reports on the top twelve spam relaying countries for January - March 2012. 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 - 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 - You know what I like? Free money. You know what else I like? Free cars. You know what I like best of all? Balloons. If only there was a piece of email spam relevant to my interests where I could combine (continue reading...) 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 - Researchers in the AV Labs received a spam that is unlike the usual batch of Viagra spam and Rolex spam that we would normally see in our inboxes: pizza spam. And the spammers behind it are back to offer second (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - There’s a heavily liked / commented post on Facebook doing the rounds at the moment, and unfortunately it’s the latest reappearance of a very old spam missive related to passport page tearing shenanigans. Here’s a shot of the post – you (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Acai Berry spammers briefly take over Twitter account belonging to Hyatt Hotels. Is your company taking the security of its social media accounts seriously enough? 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
April 11, 2012 - Smartphones now make up half of all activated mobile phones. And as we know, smartphones are small computers, capable of performing most of the same functions as a PC, primarily through the use of mobile applications. Some claim that mobile malware (continue reading...) Read more