by Paul Ducklin In the early days of personal computers, everyone knew why backups were vitally important. Computer storage simply wasn’t as reliable as it is today, and it wasn’t a question of if you’d lose vital files through no fault of your own, but when it would...
by Paul Ducklin NB. Detection names you can check for if you use Sophos products and servicesare available from the Sophos X-Ops team on our sister site Sophos News. Internet telephony company 3CX is warning its customers of malware that was apparently weaseled into...
by Paul Ducklin HOW TO TURN YOURSELF IN No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere...
by Naked Security writer The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently announced work that it’s been doing as an ongoing part of a multinational project dubbed Operation PowerOFF. The idea seems to be to use fake cybercrime-as-a-service sites to attract the...
by Paul Ducklin Apple’s latest update blast is out, including an extensive range of security patches for all devices that Apple offcially supports. There are fixes for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS, along with patches for all three supported flavours of macOS, and...
by Paul Ducklin Last week was aCropalypse week, where a bug in the Google Pixel image cropping app made headlines, and not just because it had a funky name. (We formed the opinion that the name was a little bit OTT, but we admit that if we’d thought of it ourselves,...