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SOCA raids 'e-commerce-style' card data sites

...were acting as online shops for stolen bank card data. Image credit: Sophos SOCA said on Thursday that the domains were removed in a "day... Read more

27 April, 2012 by David Meyer

Sophos releases antivirus program for Mac home users

...Sophos has unveiled free antivirus software for Macintosh home users to detect and... Read more

3 November, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Sophos to bolster security portfolio with Astaro buy

...Internet security company Sophos has announced its intention to buy network security company Astaro to provide... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Facebook profile views apps are fake, says Sophos

...is viewing your profile is a scam, according to security research firm Sophos. Sophos has said this application is a scam. Screenshot: Sophos Sophos posted... Read more

30 November, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Twitter users hit by 'WTF' viral message

...automatically post from an infected user's account, according to security company Sophos. "Twitter has responded rapidly to shut down a new worm, which spread... Read more

27 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Twitter hit by JavaScript hack

...Security firm Sophos posted a blog entry on Tuesday highlighting a new and potentially dangerous... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy

Microsoft investigates RDP exploit security leak

...Clearly somewhere along the line something has gone badly wrong. – Graham Cluley, Sophos Security company Sophos, which is part of MAPP, told ZDNet UK on... Read more

19 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Koobface botnet gang exposed by researchers

...the men due to lax security policies employed in running the botnet, Sophos and Jan Drömer, an independent researcher, said on Tuesday. "As in real... Read more

17 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Facebook flooded with porn spam

...a top priority for us". According to Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos, the images shown to unsuspecting Facebook users included "explicit hardcore porn images... Read more

16 November, 2011 by David Meyer
Startup Britain site points to scareware

Startup Britain site points to scareware

...link in question had been removed on Tuesday morning. UK security company Sophos confirmed the attempted fraud on the site, which is designed to help... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Twitter turns on HTTPS to counter hackers

...people to steal Twitter-session cookies to impersonate other people, security company Sophos said in a blog post on Wednesday. Using HTTPS for your favourite... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Twitter patches JavaScript hack

...exploited to launch pop-ups and browser windows, according to security firm Sophos. The hack exploited a JavaScript command called 'onmouseover' to launch pop-ups... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Cybersecurity challenge kicks off

...to find flaws in a dummy website, run by SANS Institute and Sophos. The competitions will take place on a series of dates until August... Read more

26 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Spy rootkit goes after key Indian, Iranian systems

...appropriated Realtek code and used it in the malicious software. Security company Sophos told ZDNet UK on Friday that it was aware of instances of... Read more

16 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Adobe update plugs critical Flash holes

The company has issued a patch that addresses 32 vulnerabilities in its Flash Player in Windows, Mac, Solaris and Linux, after hackers exploited one of the vulnerabilities Read more

11 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

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