Sophos in comment and analysis
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 security firm... [13 Feb 2009]
Minority Report: Macs threatened by virus terror?
Comment As Sophos product manager Phil Wood commented in a 2005 edition of this column: "A bit of vigilance is required - Mac users don't live in an unassailable tower. Is Apple pushing antivirus software? Seb Janacek examines... [03 Dec 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. Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big business and aimed at financial... [19 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up According to a survey by security firm Sophos, around 43 per cent of workers polled report their employer blocks access to the social networking site completely. Sophos' Graham Cluley said: "I think it's... [24 Aug 2007]
Leader: Should McKinnon be extradited?
Leader Research from antivirus company Sophos today found that 52 per cent of respondents oppose his extradition. When did we all get so caring and liberal? Twelve months ago the majority of people who responded to articles on... [07 Jul 2006]
Leader: Are Macs really more secure?
Leader So while Sophos this week has been saying 'go Mac', certainly Symantec, another larger player in the industry which would normally not pass up a chance to slam Microsoft, admits the disparity is largely down to the size... [06 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, claims Leap.A represents the first "real virus" for the Mac OS X platform. The 'virus', called Leap.A or Oompa Loompa, was first discovered in mid-February by UK... [03 Mar 2006]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader Case in point: antivirus companies Computer Associates, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and even initially MessageLabs wouldn't comment on which country the Trojans were coming from. When we asked Sophos to... [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader Case in point: antivirus companies Computer Associates, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and even initially MessageLabs wouldn't comment on which country the Trojans were coming from. When we asked Sophos to... [29 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.09.04
Round-Up Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant and full-time rent-a-quote at antivirus firm Sophos, said no-one in the industry would "touch them with a bargepole" - which may or, more likely, may not be a phrase they are... [17 Sep 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 1)
Comment Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, answers: "It certainly wouldn't do any harm to have, for instance, a message on boot-up or change your wallpaper to remind you of the dangers that can lurk on the... [04 Aug 2004]
After these messages: 'Show me the money!'
Comment However, perhaps shameless stunt of the week goes to everybody's favourite self-publicist Graham Cluley from Sophos. Interviewed by the BBC at the company's headquarters ahead of one of the event's big announcements,... [30 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.04
Round-Up Sophos consultant and anti-virus expert Graham Cluley is good for two things: One can imagine bedrooms full of candles, film-wrapped boxes of Sophos anti-virus products and soft, seductive words... [27 Feb 2004]
Leader: Virus writers undone by need for publicity
Leader Carole Theriault, a security analyst at Sophos, today told silicon.com: "It is normally incredibly difficult to track down virus writers but when they start coming out and boasting about what they are doing they can... [16 Feb 2004]
Gigabyte v Cluley: Seconds out, round four
Comment Gigabyte also rarely passed up an opportunity to slag off Cluley on her personal website and even contacted silicon.com last year to spark a war of words with the Sophos man claiming he "continues to talk shit about... [05 Jan 2004]
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