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April Fool: RAPIL - a slap in the face for hackers and virus writers
An exciting day in SophosLabs. After long and arduous efforts, we announce our new beta technology offering to defeat the hackers, which we are currently referring to as RAPIL (Recognition and Analysis...
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April Fool: Shatner virus planted by hackers on orbiting satellite
We published this story on 1 April 2009. Of course, the Shatner virus doesn't really exist, and Far Polo L1 is an anagram of Apr1l Fool. We hope you enjoy the joke (and the video!) as much as we...
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I Spoke Too Soon! (But still nothing on Conficker)
Well it's turned 1st April GMT, but still nothing as far as Conficker is concerned. My laptop is still on GMT and is slightly warm, but certainly isn't melting. However, it would appear that I spoke...
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April Fool: Sexy romances distract hackers from data theft, Sophos research...
We published this story on 1 April 2010. Of course, "Protection through Distraction" doesn't really exist. We hope you enjoy the joke (and the video!) as much as we enjoyed putting it together. You may...
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Scamming the scammers
Scammers use decoy documents (fake invoices, bogus airline tickets, imaginary lottery wins, political commentary on Tibet, information about World Cup 2010 fixtures, and so forth) to trick us into...
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Nicole Richie exposed as Twitter hacker
Nicole Richie has been exposed as the person behind a number of unusual tweets on Thursday from the Twitter accounts of reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend Joel Madden. No doubt the 3.2...
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Firefox update no April Fool
If you've just returned to work after the Easter long weekend, and you're a Firefox user, you might not yet realise that the guys at the Mozilla Foundation recently pushed out their 3.6.3 update, just...
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April Fool: Apple iPad and other popular devices vulnerable to data loss...
SophosLabs has found an alarming vector by which personal and private data can leak from smartphones and portable computing devices such as the Apple iPad and iPad 2.
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Bitcoin, Snapchat and XP as you've never heard them before - special coverage...
Instead of doing an April Fool, we've gone for some April Fun. We took three recent computer security stories, and turned them into poems!
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April Fools! The day's weirdest spams revealed...
Today, we just couldn't resist sifting through our Spam Stash. Here's some comment spam from Naked Security that we thought would amuse you...
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SSCC 193 - Pick a YouTube security token, any token! [PODCAST]
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest computer security stories in their inimitable style. Turn news into advice with the Sophos Security Chet Chat!
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