Tag: Sophos
Martinelli hoax is back on WhatsApp – don’t forward!
Facebook U-turn on mobile and address info app access
Remember the slightly troubling news that Facebook wold be offering up your mobile phone number and address details to third party app developers, should you choose to allow it? Well, the world's leading social network have now backtracked on the…
Facebook apps now have access to your phone number and address
Third-party Facebook apps will now be given access to a users phone number and address as part of the User Graph object, should a user choose to submit the info. As you'll have to explicitly allow access for the application…
"OMG MOTHER WENT TO JAIL" scam hits Facebook
Facebook users beware! Yet another viral scam has hit the social network, aiming to snare all your personal details. The scam encourages users to "like" and share a post titled "OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: This mother…
Facebook "sexy video" scam lures users into installing malware
It's been a rough week for Facebook. First their privacy policies were run through the wringer, and now there's another ad scam doing the rounds, looking to poach user's sensitive information. According to Sophos, thousands have been hit by a…
Opinion: Facebook numpties deserve to be defrauded!
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
Two days into the week and TWO Facebook security threats appear. The first in The Guardian on Monday warned secret code from FB’s inner-workings had been published on the internet prompting warnings of a security risk for users. Boring! Code, schmode, it’s far too technical.
But then this piece of wonder appeared today in The Times and it’s far more worrying, not least because everyone I know does it – and also because it involves a frog!
Freddi Staur is a cute green frog who has stolen email addresses and mobile phone numbers from users on the social network website – in an experiment to show how easily people give out their personal information to strangers…
Security 'guru' questions the need for a security industry
The supposed security guru Bruce Schneier recently addressed the Infosecurity Show in London, questioning why the security industry exists at all.
Controversially, and rather simplistically, he seemed to suggest that the security industry's existence indicates the willingness of other technology companies to ship insecure hardware and software.
Security software companies should've prepared better for Vista
In the ongoing war of words about Windows Vista and third-party anti-virus/security software, Sophos have tried a bit of point-scoring over rivals McAfee and Symantec by saying they should have been better prepared for Windows Vista. Symantec and McAfee have…
