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Follow our blog on TwitterI have to admit that it took me some time to become positive about micro blogging sites like Twitter. I thought I will never tweet, primarily because I did not not think anybody would be interested in... 14 October 2008 16:35 GMT
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Life in the LabsI’m a new recruit at Sophos, and thought there might be interest in my experience of starting here. It’s been three months since I started my training as a virus analyst, and I’m still... 11 October 2008 15:31 GMT
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UI redress attacks (aka Clickjacking)Recently there has been quite a bit of noise about attacks involving a technique dubbed ‘Clickjacking’. The tale starts back in September when a talk planned for the OWASP conference was pulled... 9 October 2008 12:38 GMT
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Money laundering or 419 spamSophosLabs regularly sees spam relating to “money processing” jobs. Typically, these spam emails contain phrases like
import/export business
making payments
receive *% of each payment
looking... 8 October 2008 13:55 GMT
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Anti-spam product testingLast week, while I was at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Ottawa I attended a couple of meetings on ‘Anti-spam product testing’. The meetings were scheduled to coincide with the conference... 8 October 2008 09:19 GMT
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Virus Bulletin 2008 and the endThis year’s Virus Bulletin had finished in Ottawa.
On top of all the jokes, the quality of the presentations was good this year. Presentations related to the themes of Malware-disinfection,... 6 October 2008 20:20 GMT
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Yet another reason why malware really bugs me .Generally, most malware is completely unoriginal. The vast majority of the malware that we see does the same similar things over and over and over again. But occasionally, something comes through that lab... 4 October 2008 21:46 GMT
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SALiTy & cHIPSA new variant of the Sality virus (W32/Sality-AM) was seen by the Australian lab last night. The polymorphic file infecting virus is quite destructive by today’s standards and uses several tricks to... 1 October 2008 10:28 GMT
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