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Facebook members at risk of identity theft(24/06/2009)
Personal information may be being placed at risk - and is perhaps best kept off the internet - following news that popular social networking website Facebook contained a flaw that could have allowed hackers to access sensitive profile information about any of the site's 200 million plus users. Sophos notes that this data, which includes date of birth, home town, gender, family members, relationship status and political and religious views, c... [more]
iPhone and iPod Touch users should update to version 3.0 to ensure internet browsing security(22/06/2009)
iPhone and iPod Touch users have been urged to upgrade their devices with the latest version of Apple's operating system - not just for the enhanced usability features, but because the update fixes more than 40 security vulnerabilities. Existing iPhone users can update their operating system for free via iTunes to version 3.0, and take advantage of a number of longed-for new features such as cut-and-paste, spotlight search and a landscape virt... [more]
British Communist Party website infected with malware(05/06/2009)
The website of the British Communist Party has had malware planted on it by hackers, designed to infect the computers of potential supporters. Experts at Sophos are warning internet surfers that many pages on the website could infect innocent users and give cybercriminals access to their computers, as the hackers have altered a Microsoft Silverlight script so that it will execute malicious JavaScript code, identified by Sophos as Mal/Iframe-F.... [more]
Gumblar web-based attack is currently being found six times more often than its nearest rival(15/05/2009)
JSRedir-R, a new web-based attack, has blown all previous web-based malware out of the water, and is currently being found six times more often than its nearest rival. During the last seven days, almost half of all malicious infections found on websites were caused by Troj/JSRedir-R. Mal/Iframe-F, which has been the most widespread web-based threat for more than a year, accounted for just seven percent of infections this week. Overall, Sopho... [more]
French hacker breaks into Twitter internal administration system(08/05/2009)
A French hacker is claiming that he broke into Twitter's internal administration system, giving him access to the accounts of millions of Twitter users including those of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen. The claim appears to be confirmed by screenshot images uploaded to a French blog, giving a glimpse into Twitter's admin panel and revealing that the likes of Kutcher and Allen have blocked other Twitter users such a... [more]
Criminal gang targets both Windows computers and Mac OS X(16/04/2009)
Apple Mac users should to be on their guard against websites hosting malicious code designed to infect their systems. The advice follows the discovery of a new version of the OSX/RSPlug Trojan horse that is being distributed via a legitimate-looking website offering HDTV software. "There is much less malware for the Apple Mac than there is for Windows, but that doesn't mean that Apple fans can hide their head in the sand like ostriches," said... [more]
Fraudsters are using DHL spam to trick unsuspecting victims(30/03/2009)
Computer users need to be on their guard following the discovery of a new large scale malicious spam campaign posing as an email from courier firm DHL. The campaign is the second in the space of a week that masquerades as DHL, and the messages again claim that the courier company tried to deliver a parcel from you on the 14th of March, and that you need to print out the attached invoice and bring it to their office. Computer users that fall... [more]
Sophos NAC Advanced defends against the risks of unknown PCs trying to access the Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS Primary Care Trust network(18/02/2009)
Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS Primary Care Trust serves a population of more than 200,000. Given the rise in remote working and guests, including both contractors and patients, wishing to connect to the Trust’s network either for work purposes or simply for browsing the web, Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS needed a solution that would enable it to control this access and ensure that every device met a baseline of IT policies. After performing a... [more]
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