Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take this apparently innocuous quote from the point man of the Sophos antivirus hit squad, Graham Cluley: "They [the emails] claim to come from a German 21 year-old go-go dancer with blonde hair. We think it's all Graham Cluley's fault.
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
BusinessWeek Site Infected By Hackers
News It's unclear how long the site has been compromised and there is no evidence that BusinessWeek.com readers have been affected, but also no evidence that they haven't, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
[September 16, 2008, 12:11]
Phishermen Release DIY Con Kits
News By putting the necessary tools in the hands of amateurs, it's likely that the number of attacks will continue to rise," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. The emergence of these 'build your own phish' kits means that anyone...
[August 19, 2004, 17:35]
Internet Fridges: Virus Magnets?
News According to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with antivirus firm Sophos, it is easy to write an email virus, like the Anna Kournikova one, that attacks PCs, because these are written in high level languages, and there are even tools...
[July 12, 2002, 14:54]
ISPs Cut Off Virus-infected Customers
News Some people may be a Typhoid Mary, spreading the disease onto anyone that they are in contact with, and so need to be isolated," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos.
[October 10, 2001, 15:51]
Teenager Admits Writing Sasser Worm
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[July 5, 2005, 18:18]
Hacker Targets Sophos Mouthpiece
News A row has once again broken out between two of the virus world's best known characters -- Sophos senior technology consultant and mouthpiece Graham Cluley, and Gigabyte, a female Belgian hacker. The twist is that they score the most points for...
[July 17, 2003, 13:05]
Korean Worm Turns Out To Be Baba Variant
News Senior technical consultant at Sophos Graham Cluley said that antivirus firms should have labelled the virus as a 'W32/Baba' worm. The guys in the labs have looked more closely at this and said that this isn't Netsky," Cluley said.
[October 22, 2004, 17:15]
Web-borne Security Threats Soar
News This year has seen a "worrying" increase in the amount of malicious code on the internet, according to Graham Cluley, Sophos senior technology consultant. It's a worrying trend that legitimate websites are increasingly being hacked, rather than...
[July 25, 2007, 13:33]
New Breed Of Psychological Viruses Emerge
News According to Graham Cluley, technology expert at antivirus firm Sophos, MTX is also a perfect example of the current trend for pyschological viruses. were deliberately aimed at a wide audience, Cluley says.
[December 7, 2000, 6:04]
Zafi Worm Dominates Email Systems
News It's generating a lot of email," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. Cluley said that once the worm has penetrated a contacts book to send itself to email addresses stored there, it creates a large number of made-up email...
[December 16, 2004, 14:45]
Ex-virus Writer Questioned Over Slammer
News It seems that the police have questioned him about a virus that was really significant," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. Cluley pointed out that some members of the 29A group had left this month.
[November 29, 2004, 13:35]
Trojan Attack Uses Fake Lewinsky Pics
News The Trojan has been around for a while, and the people behind it have used all sort of disguises," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. But Cluley said there was no need to panic providing users had taken precautions: "If...
[October 22, 2004, 16:25]
Latest Sober Variants Are Far From Friendly
News In the last 12 hours, Sober.O has become the second most commonly reported virus, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, and "is currently accounting for around 10 percent of all viruses reported".
[October 6, 2005, 13:40]
Half Of Employers Ban Facebook
News I think it's a growing concern for employers for a number of reasons," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. Cluley added it is difficult to tell when people are using a social-networking site when they are sitting at a computer.
[August 22, 2007, 16:09]
Asia: Public Enemy Number One For Spam
News Now North and South America combined don't come close to Asia's percentage, said Graham Cluley, Sophos' senior technology consultant. Cluley added that Europe is also becoming a major relayer of spam and now transmits almost as much as North...
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
Bilingual Worm Masquerades As Microsoft Patch
News Sober.D is technically similar to its previous incarnation as Sober.C, where it used its own SMTP engine to send copies of itself to email addresses found on infected systems, but the latest version displays fake Microsoft warnings and error...
[March 8, 2004, 11:40]
Virus Writers Claim Blair's Email Account Was Hacked
News Clicking on the link takes users to a Web site which invisibly installs a Trojan horse on the victim's computer," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. Everyone should exercise extreme care about how they respond to...
[May 6, 2005, 14:55]
US Leads The Dirty Dozen Spammers
News When we released the first report back in February, the US had the excuse that the Can-Spam Act had been in existence for only three months," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, on Friday.
[December 24, 2004, 10:45]
Trojan Logs E-banking Habits
News It's the next generation of phishing attacks," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. We did see another one a few months ago," added Cluley. Security experts say they have discovered a Trojan horse that records e-banking user...
[November 11, 2004, 13:45]

