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RSS Sophos attack10 Steps to Better Secure Your Mac Laptop From Physical Data Theft
White Paper Laptops are more prone to physical attack than desktop systems by their nature - being portable they are often taken out of the office to work from home, on the train or even in the local Starbucks. When one takes... [12 Nov 2009]
Modern Web Attacks
White Paper This paper provides an overview of modern malware that uses the web to attack victims. The roles of "Attack Sites" and compromised sites are discussed together with some of the technologies that can be... [12 Nov 2009]
Critical ActiveX Office hole under attack, warns Microsoft
News Antivirus vendor Sophos, meanwhile, said in a blog posting on its site that it had received reports of several websites, mostly in China, serving the exploit as part of a web exploit kit that downloads and runs a Windows... [14 Jul 2009]
Porn site goes on Mac attack
News Sophos on Wednesday discovered a new version of the Mac OS X Tored worm, according to a Sophos blog post. Sophos explained in a blog post on Thursday that visitors to the malicious porn... [12 Jun 2009]
Sophos Security Threat Report: Mid-Year Update
White Paper The latest Security Threat Report from Sophos gives you a comprehensive insight into the very latest methods being used by cybercriminals to try to out-fox traditional security systems. Hackers attack... [18 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up One of hackers' favourite tricks is to disguise their attack as an e-card from an anonymous admirer, and as Valentine's Day approaches we can expect the fraudsters to redouble their efforts," reckons Graham Cluley, of... [13 Feb 2009]
Satyam scandal, police search row and Apple without Jobs
News Security vendors Kaspersky Labs and Sophos responded to the news by saying they'd block attempts by the police to hack into computer systems without a warrant. Warship computers scuttled after virus attack [02 Feb 2009]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News But Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told silicon.com sister site CNET News that doesn't mean the attackers are in China - only that they are using compromised machines located in that country. [13 Oct 2008]
First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News But Sophos' Asia Pacific head of technology, Paul Ducklin told ZDNet.com.au that Intego's product was not really scanning the iPhone. Laurent Marteau, Intego's CEO said: "With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software, and... [21 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News According to Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, the web has aided the rise of multi-component threats. Jens Andreassen, vice president for Asia-Pacific at Fortinet, told silicon.com... [02 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Further Plc failings were highlighted by IT security firm Sophos that found that 81 per cent of 580 corporate PCs tested worldwide were missing patches and software updates and had disabled firewalls. [19 Jun 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News While Mac penetration remain relatively low in the enterprise, the increasing popularity of OS X in the consumer market has resulted in criminal gangs starting to pay attention to the Apple collective, according to security firm,... [23 Jan 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Carole Theriault, senior consultant at security company Sophos, says she expects Storm will be the biggest malware of 2007. The other side of the coin is the targeted attack, which is largely designed... [19 Nov 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Antivirus vendor Sophos agreed Stewart's analysis of the use of encryption to segment the Storm network for the purposes of resale is "probably correct". Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at... [17 Oct 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News Security vendor Sophos confirmed it also saw more phishing than malware activity in January. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "More email at the moment does appear to be... [31 Jan 2007]
