Are you in London this week and planning on attending IP EXPO Europe at ExCel on Wednesday or Thursday? It’s the first year that Sophos is at the show and we’re celebrating by giving away free socks (obviously), laptop stickers and webcam covers! Our experts James Burchell and Greg Iddon will also be holding a...

Wireless carrier T-Mobile is warning 15 million customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at credit reporting company Experian. In a bizarre twist of irony, those customers are currently being offered two years of free credit monitoring from ProtectMyID.com – a service owned and operated by Experian. The data breach, announced on Thursday, 1 October,...

Surfing the internet late at night, ex-Google Display Specialist and Account Strategist Sanmay Ved discovered a strange thing – a premium domain name going for just $12. And by premium I don’t mean some new, previously unregistered domain with a catchy name, but, rather, the mother of all domains: Google.com. At around 1:20 AM on...

I don’t actually know Julia Cordray. We’ve never hung out, and she never hired me to write for her. Nor have I ever babysat her kids – Julia, do you even have kids? – and I’m pretty sure she’s never fed my cats while I’m on vacation. I’m going to rate her anyway. I’m giving...

Thanks to security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, we already know that late-model cars are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can range from the annoying – say, an uncontrollably blasting horn – to the potentially lethal: slamming on a Prius’s brakes at high speeds, killing power steering with commands sent from a laptop, spoofing GPS,...

You’ve read the stories; the lurid tales of homes laid bare by unsecured baby monitors, smart TVs and unintentional backdoors; the kids with apps that lied; the social media scams; the crummy passwords… You saw them and you knew that somebody had to do something. You did something. You joined the legion of the unsung...

Given that I’m a sucker for online quizzes, I’m aware of the fact that when I’m angry, the villain I most resemble is Voldemort. I also know that if an artist were to promise me a novelty passport that features my machine-drawn portrait, replete with my name and an official-looking red stamp just like a...

Windows 7 users were thrown into a panic overnight by what we can only think to describe as a harmlessly incorrect genuine botched fake update. Help forums filled up with rumours of a hack at Microsoft, thanks to an update notification looking something like this: gYxseNjwafVPfgsoHnzLblmm...YMEILGNIPwNOgEazuBVJcyVjBRL Download size: 4.3 MB You may need to restart...

Passwords? On Post-its? How retro! How circa Prince Williams! You’d think we’d all know better, particularly after such memorable incidents as when passwords were left on sticky notes glued in the background during a TV interview – an interview concerning a cyber-attack, of course – broadcast live on the French TV channel TV5 Monde this...

Apple just released iOS 9.0.2. This new version claims to close the well-publicised Lock screen hole that lets anyone view and edit your contacts, send text messages, and rummage through your photos – without entering your passcode. If you had an iOS 9 or 9.0.1 device with Siri accessible from your lock screen, you were vulnerable...