Sophos sorry for blog comment spam campaign

Marketing agency gets up to mischief

Sophos has apologised after a third-party marketing agency hired by the anti-virus and anti-spam specialist sprayed link spam on the blog of security expert Gunter Ollmann.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Virgin Mobile fined for pushing mobile spam

Ignored Oz opt-outs

Virgin Mobile has been fined for sending spam messages to Australian mobile users who’d already opted out of receiving promotions.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Hacking human gullibility with social penetration

We don’t need no stinking exploits

Security penetration testers Mike Bailey and Mike Murray rely plenty on attacks that exploit weaknesses in websites and servers, but their approach is better summed up by the famous phrase “There’s a sucker born every minute”.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Zombie tactics threaten to poison honeypots

Hive minds vs bot herders

Innovations in botnet technology threaten the usefulness of honeypots, one of the main ways to study how bot herders control networks of zombie PCs.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud