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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

09

Jun

2011

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they’ve started to imitate Microsoft Update. The page is nearly an exact replica […]

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Avoid cyberwinter – turn Cybersecurity Awareness Week into a cybersafe lifestyle

27

May

2011

Next week – Monday 30 June 2011 to Friday 03 June 2011 – is National Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) in Australia. It’s also the official start of winter. Sophos has been an enthusiastic participant in CSAW events over the past few years, and has endorsed various industry initiatives introduced under the CSAW umbrella, such as […]

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Obama: Gary McKinnon’s fate is in the hands of the British legal system

26

May

2011

We’ve written on many occasions on the Naked Security site about the case of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon. McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, was arrested in 2002 after breaking into computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA. The 45-year-old hacker claims that he accessed […]

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