Tag Archives : Sophos

One of the foremost social networking services on the Internet and perhaps the most visited website in the world, Facebook, apart from amassing a vast user base of some 700 million users has now become a hotbed for malware scams on just about every profile. As per a recent report released by the antivirus developer, Sophos, the current ongoing malware [...]

About 12% of spam worldwide from India and Brazil, the second and third places in the survey conducted by Sophos, a company specializing in security. The list is led by the United States, followed by India, considering the time the final quarter of last year. See the full list below: 1. USA – 18.83% 2. India – 6.88% 3. Brazil – 5.04% 4. [...]

The company Sophos, which specializes in security products for Internet users, today launched an alert to players of “Farm Town“, a popular online game made available on social network Facebook. According to Graham Cluley, a security expert at Sophos, game users are getting fake security warnings in an attempt to trick the unwary to install [...]

The virtual security firm Sophos issued a warning about a virus transmitted by an email with supposed music files with novel and photos of Michael Jackson. The warning was passed on this Thursday (2). The email arrives in your inbox with the subject “Remembering Michael Jackson “ and is sent by the sender “sarah@michaeljackson.com [...]

Spam is doing well! According to the experts of security technologies at Symantec, between 150 and 200 billion spam mails were sent each day worldwide, in 2008. This represents between 80 percent and 90 percent of mails sent to individuals, and even 97 percent to professionals. The amount of spam is also said to be steadily increasing, following the [...]