I’m delighted to report that Sophos Mobile Control has made a big impression on the handheld mobile device security marketplace, including the folks at SC Magazine.
Receiving a “Recommended” rating is always an accomplishment, but Sophos Mobile Control has done so with a solid five stars in each of the categories: Features, Ease of Use, Performance, [...]
Hello everyone, I have the privilege of being the only Naked Security writer attending this years Black Hat conference in sunny Las vegas.
This also means I have the honor of trying to provide you with the most interesting developments presented at the event.
This morning I attended an interesting presentation titled "Macs in the age [...]
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For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated penetrations themselves or if that is a [...]
It’s only been a few weeks since the world’s web users woke up to discover a big black bar at the top of their Google search results (introduced when Google+ was launched).
Now, some users of Google search might start seeing something else close to the top of the world’s most famous home page.
The warning message [...]
Remember Zach Braff (Did his parents really choose this name for him?), star of hospital comedy series Scrubs where he played the hapless and endearing character Dr John Dorian?
Well, yesterday Braff announced on Facebook that his website was hacked to display a bogus letter to loyal fans admitting that he was gay.
According to [...]
According to media reports, a 28-year-old Japanese man has been sent to prison for two years and six months, after spreading a virus across the internet which damaged data on victims’ computers.
In a first for the country, Japan has applied property destruction charges to the creator of a computer virus.
28-year-old Masato Nakatsuji wrote malware known [...]
It seems that the UK isn’t the only country at the centre of a phone hacking scandal.
A spokesman for the Taliban has claimed that phones, email accounts and a website belonging to the group were hacked, and text messages distributed claiming that their reclusive Afghan leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had died from heart disease.
The original [...]
Messages are spreading rapidly on Facebook claiming to reveal a way to find out who has been secretly viewing your profile.
Here are a couple of examples:
Brilliant!! Now u can see all your profile stalkers! –> [LINK]
and
WOW!! I can’t believe that you can see whose viewing your profile. I’ve just seen my top 10 profile peekers [...]
For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace.
Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter.
Twitter-er!
You have 2 direct [...]
Within days of the hacktivist group Anonymous announcing it was setting up its own social network (after being unceremoniously booted off Google+), its plans have taken a somewhat humiliating turn.
AnonPlus, Anonymous’s planned social network, has been defaced by rival hackers.
A group of hackers apparently based in Turkey replaced AnonPlus’s main webpage with an image of [...]