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SophosLabs maps malware and spam with Google Earth
Jun 2, 2008Read more in my article at Naked Security.
A cyber-thriller for our German readers: “Spam from the 8th floor”
Jun 2, 2008Read more in my article at Naked Security.
20 hippos trying to get through a revolving door
Jan 29, 2008Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been hitting the headlines more than normal in the last week following a number of high profile news stories.
Petition Gordon Brown for UK e-crime unit
Jan 17, 2008An online petition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been set up to call for the creation of a central e-crime police unit, as proposed by the Metropolitan Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers. The petition is growing in momentum, and signatories include members of the House of Lords Committee on Personal Internet Safety.
Botmasters herded up by the FBI
Dec 3, 2007Last week the newspapers were full of stories about the teenager arrested in New Zealand, accused of heading up an international hacking ring that broke into millions of computers around the world. The arrest came about following the successful co-operation between the FBI and the crime-fighting authorities in New Zealand and The Netherlands.
Lost child benefit CDs: Have they looked down the back of the sofa?
Nov 27, 2007It’s appalling. The loss of millions of people’s personal information by the HMRC shakes the trust that people need to have with government organizations to its foundations. Worryingly, new research conducted by Sophos has found that 58% of those polled believe the Government’s data loss was “inevitable”. Yes, we know that to to err is human, but to really screw things up it seems you need a Government department.