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CAN-SPAM spammers with a sense of humor
SophosLabs researcher Richard Wang ran into a unusual opt-out disclaimer earlier today in an email message. It would appear that this spammer has a sense of humor and is polite to boot!
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Not-so anonymous Anonymouses head off to prison over PayPal DDoS
Four young Englishmen who went on an Anonymous rampage back in 2010 weren't as anonymous as they might have hoped. They were traced, identified and arrested...now two of them are on their...
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Memories of the Slammer worm - ten years later
Ten years ago to the day, we published an FAQ about a computer worm called Slammer. It was aptly named. If you were in IT back in 2003, I'm sure you remember it well...
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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's everything we've written in the past seven days.
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Anatomy of a phish - how crooks hack legitimate websites to steal your details
Are you a "safe surfer"? What about sites that were perfectly good yesterday, but today are serving phishing pages for the crooks? Paul Ducklin takes you on a four-country phishing trip...
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Twitter ordered to unmask hate speakers
Months after hate speech was taken down from Twitter, a French court has ordered the company to hand over details of users who posted anti-Semitic content. Is the uncloaking of the haters worth the...
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Hackers play Asteroids on US government websites
To have one website fall foul of Asteroid-loving hackers may be regarded as a misfortune; but to have two looks like carelessness.
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How to find single women who like men *and* like getting drunk, with Facebook...
Check what you share on your Facebook account *before* Facebook Graph Search is rolled out to a wider audience - or else prepare to suffer the consequences..
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Point of sale devices and Canadian banks targeted by Citadel malware variant
A new variant of the prevalent Citadel crimeware kit has been discovered to target Point of Sale (POS) devices. Find out more, in this analysis from SophosLabs expert James Wyke.
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Apple updates iOS fixing 27 vulnerabilities and TURKTRUST revocation
Apple has released updates for users of the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV products that fix critical vulnerabilities. Apple users should update their devices to iOS 6.1 as soon as possible.
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86,800 network printers open to the whole internet - is one of them yours?
Last week, it was programmers uploading their private keys to public websites. This week, it's private printers left openly on the public internet. In the words of a famous software company, "Where do...
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WhatsApp's privacy investigated by joint Canadian-Dutch probe
Privacy commissions in Canada and The Netherlands have investigated poor privacy practices in the popular mobile phone application WhatsApp. What's the problem and what should you do?
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What if your security camera were an insecurity camera?
What if your security camera were an insecurity camera? Paul Ducklin investigates and offers some advice...
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Test your security knowledge with the Sophos scavenger hunt - you could bag...
Take Sophos's quick scavenger hunt - you'll not only learn some cool security facts to impress your friends with, you'll also be in with the chance of winning some goodies!
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FBI intent on sniffing out those who leaked possible US Stuxnet role
Federal investigators in the US are tightening the screws on former senior government officials who might have leaked info about the Stuxnet worm.
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SSCC 101 - Private things made public, the Java saga, PWN2OWN, and precision...
Chester talks to Paul Ducklin in Sophos Security Chet Chat Episode 101. Spend an enjoyable quarter-hour as our duo take on a range of security issues with their usual mixture of insight, expertise,...
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Governments increasingly strong-arm Twitter for data
Twitter on Monday released its second Transparency Report, which revealed governments' growing taste for what Twitter itself labels "invasive requests" for information.
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Hacker blackmailed 350 women into stripping on their webcams, FBI says
The FBI has arrested a 27-year-old man, who they claim hacked the accounts of Facebook users, and coerced hundreds of women into stripping while he watched via Skype. Learn more about this case, and a...
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Serious security holes fixed in Opera - but Mac App Store users left at risk...
It should go without saying that if you use Opera, you should update to version 12.13 as soon as possible. But... what if you didn't get your copy of Opera from the official website? What if, instead,...
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Jailbreak iOS 6.1 today, or wait until Sunday?
The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and its diehard technical fans continues. Update - jailbreak - update - jailbreak... Should Apple open up iOS and offer an official route to jailbreaking?
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