Tag archive: Sophos

There was once a time when spam emails were our biggest worry. No longer, says Sophos. In its annual Security Threat Report, the IT security firm found that 67 percent of those using social sites like Facebook and Twitter have been spammed at least once in 2010. Worse,  40 percent of social users were sent malware in 2010, nearly double what it was in the summer of 2009. Phishing attacks were up as well, with more than 43 percent of users… Read More

Computer security firm Sophos has released its list of the “dirty dozen” countries that are the original points for the email spam that clogs our inboxes and brings our mail services to their knees. And while many countries have reputations as being havens for spammers and cybercriminals, guess what? Sophos says the United States is by far the top spam-sending nation on the planet—and its lead is growing. According to… Read More

Security company Sophos might be jumping on the bandwagon of the new Star Trek movie…or they might just know that everyone has a soft spot for the franchise – or at least a real novelty. Whatever the motivation, it would seem that their new anti-virus product, set to be release in July, will be a little different. It’s going to be in Klingon. According to the Sophos site: “Use Sophos's Klingon Anti-Virus… Read More

Doubtless you spent yesterday celebrating the birthday of spam. Yes, it was May 1, 1978 when Gary Thuerk of DEC spent the first spam e-mail on the Internet’s ancestor, Arpanet. But securitycompany Sophos thinks that three decades is long enough, and has begun Spam Pledge to try and eradicate spam. Good luckon that.   "Gary Thuerk could never have imagined what he was starting when he sent that mass email 30 years ago,"… Read More

Security company Sophos has revealed that it identified an average of 15,000 malware pages a day throughout the first quarter of this year. That’s astaggering one every five seconds. Of those, 79% are completely legitimate sites that have been hacked, they warned.   However, the number of infected e-mails has dropped dramatically to one in2,500, much better than one in 909 last year.   More than half of the malware Sophos found was Mal/Iframe… Read More

New analysis from Internet security firm Sophos shows the United States is still the leading source of email spam, but that China isn't far behind and, as a whole, Asia is the worst spam-relaying continent. Sophos scanned all spam messages trapped by the company's worldwide network and analyzed the messages' points of origin. Some 23.1 percent of spam still comes from computers located in the United States—which,… Read More

From the Sophos press release: Sophos has published a report into the countries from which spam messages originate. Researchers scanned all spam messages received over two days last week and have revealed a 'dirty dozen' of offending countries with the United States topping the chart. The 'dirty dozen' are as follows: United States Canada China (& Hong Kong) South Korea… Read More

The worm, dubbed Ganda-A, spreads by sending itself to e-mail addresses on an infected machine and tries to disable anti-virus and other security software and infect certain files on the hard disk, according to Sophos. Ganda, which does not appear to be spreading and is rated low risk, sends e-mail in English or Swedish. It is signed by “Uncle Roger in Hornsand, Sweden,” who complains in a message about being… Read More