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Monday review – the hot 12 stories of the week

maandag 30 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From smartphone tracking to "climate change" malware, get up to date with everything we've written in the last week.

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7 types of virus – a short glossary of contemporary cyberbadness

zaterdag 28 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Here's a short list of 7 malware categories we hope you never encounter. Sadly, it's not an exhaustive list... but it's a helpful start.

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Christmas malware uses “Support Greta Thunberg” as a lure

vrijdag 27 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

You're invited to a climate demonstration... but to find the time and place, you need to open an attachment. Don't do it!

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Apple iCloud “data dump” extortionist avoids prison

donderdag 26 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

He claimed to have logins for millions of iCloud accounts, and told Apple he'd shut them all down unless he received a payoff.

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Happy Holidays – and big thanks to everyone who’s working today!

woensdag 25 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Yes. there's a message in the Christmas tree.

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Sextortionists return for Christmas – price goes down, threats go up

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

This follow-up sextortion demand, timed to align with Christmas, has a much more aggressive and menacing tone that last week's version.

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What a decade! Our baddest stories and biggest lessons, year by year…

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From the bizarre, through the crazy, all the way to the outright impossible - there's still plenty to learn from all of these stories.

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Serious Security: The decade-ending “Y2K bug” that wasn’t

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

We explain why you really need to RTFM. Even if TFM is very long and complicated and you are very experienced.

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Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.

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Congress passes anti-robocall bill

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.

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Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.

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Monday review – the hot 25 stories of the week

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From porn scam emails to the ransomware that seized New Orleans, get up to date with everything we've written in the last week.

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Secure your laptop gift with half price Sophos Home Premium

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Want 50% off Sophos Home? You can get it here!

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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook

maandag 23 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.

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Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images

vrijdag 20 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.

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Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators

vrijdag 20 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!

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What’s behind Putin’s old-school operating system?

vrijdag 20 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Reports surfaced this week that the president of Russia is still using Windows XP as his primary operating system.

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Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again

vrijdag 20 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.

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Hiding malware downloads in Taylor Swift pics! New SophosLabs report

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Just because a malware family isn't all over the headlines doesn't mean it isn't interesting... or important... or dangerous!

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Chrome 79 patched after Android WebView app chaos

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Google has rushed out a fix for a bug in the Android version of Chrome that left some app users unable to access accounts or retrieve stored data.

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S2 Ep21: Plundervolt, domain name gunfight, Facebook snubs Congress – Naked Security Podcast

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Latest podcast episode - listen now!

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