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Sophos Techknow - Patching: should you lead, follow, or get out of the way?
Do you really need seven committee meetings and a 90-day waiting period before you update your computers with the latest patches? Duck and Chet take on the challenges of security patches in this...
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Furtive French photos feign as Facebook, but it's a malware attack
A quasi-French malware attack has been spammed out, offering photographs. Don't open the attachment - or you could end up with an infected computer!
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Oracle patches 87 flaws in DB, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Solaris, MySQL and more
Oracle's quarterly patch release fixes 87 vulnerabilities in various products including its Database, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Solaris and MySQL products.
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Telecom firm says "No" to FBI surveillance demands
In a case that has been cloaked in secrecy, a phone company is fighting an FBI request to access customer records.
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Sun journalist arrested in computer hacking investigation
Scotland Yard has arrested a tabloid journalist as part of their investigation into computer hacking.
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Blackhole malware attack poses as rejected wire transfer email
SophosLabs is intercepting a wave of malicious emails that have been spammed out around the world, luring unsuspecting internet users into clicking on a malicious attachment.
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Police admit defeat over Climate Research Unit hack
British police have admitted that there is no prospect of them identifying who was responsible for "ClimateGate" - a high profile hack that exposed confidential data and emails from the Climate...
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SSCC 95 - Oracle patches, lost USB sticks, App Store shenanigans and WiFi heists
Chet and Duck take on the week's news once again in their inimitable and informative style. You'll be glad to hear that there are several "good news" stories this week - data that didn't leak, malware...
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Is security training futile?
Phishing attacks succeed against even those who should know better. Which all begs the question, "Why bother with security training?"
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Police mobile phone sting fails when.. err.. no handsets stolen
When British police left secretly tracked phones as "bait" hoping that they would be stolen by thieves from bars and pubs, they probably thought they had come up with an ingenious plan.
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Russian hacker's App Store fraud site adds Mac support
ZonD Eighty, the Russian hacker who brought App Store fraud to unjailbroken iPads and iPhones, has extended his "service" to OS X users. Mac owners can now join their iDevice brethren in ripping off...
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BlackHat conference in giant phishing gaffe
The annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas prides itself as "the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow's information security landscape." That may well be. But...
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Indian computers the worst for flooding the internet with spam, report discovers
SophosLabs reports on the top twelve spam relaying countries for April - June 2012.
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Mom arrested for hacking school computers, tweaking her kids' grades
A US mother is facing charges that she allegedly hacked into her children's school computer, changing their grades, and accessed thousands of the school's personnel files that contained contracts,...
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If you launch a DDoS attack against Amazon, it's unwise to brag about it..
Authorities in the United States have charged two men in connection with a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that crippled websites such as Amazon.com in June 2008.
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The top four reasons users don't upgrade their software (but probably ought to)
Bet you didn't you know that it's ITUW! That's right. It's International Technology Upgrade Week. Don't worry - I didn't know, either. Find out more...
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Man who spied on cheating wife's email has charges against him dropped...
Would you ever snoop on your spouse's email? When Leon Walker began to read his wife's email, he confirmed she was having an affair. But that was only the start of the trouble he found himself in..
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Malware attack spread as email from your office's HP scanner
Cybercriminals are attempting to infect computers around the world, disguising their attack as an email claiming to come a scanner in your office.
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Mac malware Crisis on Mountain Lion eve?
SophosLabs recently received a intriguing Mac malware sample, variously known as Crisis and Morcut. Its appearance so close to the release of Mountain Lion is almost certainly a coincidence - but...
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Windows malware found in iOS App Store. Say what?!
Malware has hit the iOS App Store! But don't panic; it won't harm your iPhone or iPad - it's Windows malware. Yes, you did hear that right.
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