Sophos stories

New Business Development Director brought in to drive customer acquisitions. More

Shirley Wigley has joined Chillisoft as Major Accounts Manager to focus on enterprise and government interests.More

No charge, no time limit and no registration. So what's the catch?More

Security experts say Adobe’s PDF standard, the widely used platform for exchanging and viewing large documents, should be scrapped because it is inherently unsafe. More

The USA has extended its lead as the world's top spamming nation. More

New antivirus solutions launched into the cloud to defend against fake anti-virus and targeted malware threats. More

The promise of a free next generation iPhone being used to gather email addresses and other personal information.More

Sophos has reached an agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to Apax Partners.More

SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50 is a multi-layered endpoint data security encryption and data leakage prevention solution. More

Clive Donde (pictured) has been appointed the company's first NZ Territory Manager.More

Microsoft is urging people whose computers are running with pirated Windows software to install official Microsoft security patches – and promises not to punish them.More

With France and Germany suggesting that users abandon Internet Explorer for other internet browsers, Sophos warns of the complications of temporarily switching browsers.More

Email-based scams are the current attack of choice for phishers, and have prompted widespread warnings about being too casual with your passwords.More

A new piece of malware based on the recent Ikee worm has the ability to steal online banking credentials from jailbroken iPhones.More

The iPhone, it seems, is under siege: a recent worm exploits a known (and previously exploited) vulnerability that affects the owners of ‘jailbroken’ phones on which OpenSSH has been installed.More

Some iPhone users in Australia have been on the receiving end of the first in-the-wild virus for Apple’s iPhone, which changes the phone’s background photo to one of 1980s singer Rick Astley, a technique commonly known as Rick rolling.More

The company has licensed a virus detection engine from Sophos that will be integrated into its Unified Security Gateway (USG) 3.More

Held last week in Auckland, Base 2 held the inaugural event in its "Lunch and Learn" series, which will be held every few months.More

Twitter users have become the focus of a wave of attacks targeting social networks.More

The education vertical can be divided into three key segments – K-12, K-12 private and tertiary – each with its own list of needs, issues, challenges and constraints.More

Microsoft forefront security for exchange server
Server security and management are converging.More

* F-Secure Although it’s been in the security business for 20 years Wellington-based Scientific Software and Systems (SSS) has only recently stepped into the mobile security market.More