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Social Roulette is forced by Facebook to commit its own social suicide
Come on, wouldn't you just love to slaughter your social network and blame it on "bad luck"? Imagine, with one lucky spin of the virtual bullet chamber, there's a one in six chance that it's goodbye!
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The LulzSec hackers who boasted they were "Gods" await their sentence
Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacking gang, who attacked websites belonging to the likes of the CIA, the NHS and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), are due to be sentenced by the UK...
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How to measure the biggest and most dangerous threats
Just about every security company publishes some sort of prevalence data - those little bar charts and top tens showing the most important and widespread threats. The raw data behind these...
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Have your say - LulzSec: helpful, harmless or hideous? [VOTE NOW]
LulzSec are about to be sentenced, which will tell us what the judge thinks. But why not tell us what you think, right here, right now?
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Jail for the LulzSec hacking gang members
BREAKING NEWS: Members of the notorious LulzSec hacking gang have been sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London.
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Opinion: No, the LulzSec hackers weren't noble
Graham Cluley argues that it's not cool, or funny, to hack into companies, expose the private information of members of the general public, and to launch denial of service attacks.
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Apple fixes 41 iTunes security flaws, some more than a year old
Apple released the latest update to iTunes today, version 11.0.3, fixing 41 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and 1 in the OS X version. Many of these flaws are rated critical and we advise you...
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How to hack an electric car-charging station
The latest entrant into the scary-infrastructure category comes from a technology that feels like it should be warm and fuzzy and definitely should not contribute to your personal and financial details...
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FT hacked. Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Financial Times blogs and Twitter...
The Syrian Electronic Army has struck again - this time adding the scalp of the prestigious Financial Times to its collection of hijacked accounts belonging to well-known media organisations.
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Interview with 'We are Anonymous' author Parmy Olson [PODCAST]
In this podcast Chester interviews Parmy Olson author of "We are Anonymous" about her thoughts on LulzSec, their sentencing and the Anonymous movement. Parmy also shares some of her thoughts on Firefox...
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Get ready for the next #sophospuzzle - coming soon to a T-shirt near you
It's almost time for the annual AusCERT conference in Queensland, Australia. And for everyone who's asked, the answer is, "Yes! There's a #sophospuzzle!" No, you don't have to be there to join in...
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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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Congress asks Google if and how it's protecting privacy with Glass
The US Congress sent Google a letter listing eight specific privacy areas concerning Glass that legislators would like to know quite a bit more about. As would many of us, now that you mention it.
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Inside the "PlugX" malware with SophosLabs - a fascinating journey into a...
Join SophosLabs Principal Researcher Gabor Szappanos as he takes you on a fascinating journey into the latest "product" from the PlugX malware factory.
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22 million user IDs may be in the hands of hackers, after Yahoo Japan...
The call has gone out to Yahoo Japan's 200 million users to change their passwords, after the company warned that it suspected hackers had managed to access a file containing 22 million user IDs.
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Blogger threatened with $1 billion suit for writing about allegedly predatory...
Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers' dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian...
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AusSHIRT 2013 - the #sophospuzzle instructions in full
The AusCERT 2013 conference has started, so the AusSHIRT 2013 #sophospuzzle is officially live. See if you can transform the code on the T-shirt and win a prize! (You don't have to be at the conference...
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DDoS-for-hire service is legal and even lets FBI peek in, says a guy with an...
It's "a public service on a public connection to other public servers", the operator of RageBooter told Brian Krebs, and if sites don't like getting their socks knocked off in DDoS attacks, they should...
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SSCC 109 - Laptop theft, money mules, LulzSec, Microsoft and more [PODCAST]
Episode #109 of our popular Chet Chat podcast series is out. Chet and Duck are back with their almost entirely reverent opinions on the latest computer security issues.
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Three wireless security myths - busted! [VIDEO]
Last year Sophos looked at Wi-Fi security in London and Sydney and the results weren't fantastic. So we thought it was time to make a short revision video, just in time for 2013 Cyber Security...
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