If you're a customer-facing organization, then security can't take second place behind your services

Vigilance against card fraud is a 24/7 process, even at the grocery store

Disconnecting SCADA systems from the Internet prevents opportunistic hacking

Oracle survey finds most smartphone users believe their data is at risk

User vigilance is key to securing data, digital identities

Service disruption becoming all too familiar outcome for BlackBerry users

Consumers should take steps to proactively protect themselves against an attack

'An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure' adage rings true

Harsh lessons Sony was taught, and recommendations on how to keep your company out of the headlines

The state of Texas has spent nearly $2 million responding to a major data leakage incident. Wouldn't it be cheaper to simply protect our data?

Update includes important security fixes

We've been seeing a lot of interest in FireSheep, the FireFox add-on that lets you spy on websites. How bad is it really?

It seems like every day thousands of Facebook users fall into the trap of permitting malicious third-party apps to compromise their accounts.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that allows users to get a one-time password to log in. The site claims doing so will make "safer to use public computers." Is it really a security gold nugget, as they are saying, or is it just a lump of fool's gold?

As belts tighten and the credit crunch continues to hit around the world, more and more companies will be making the difficult decision to make staff and contractors redundant. But what happens when a disaffected former employee decides to leave your company a parting gift - in the form of data-destroying malware?

I will be the first to admit to using social media for both personal and professional use. And it seems like every other day there's another scam circulating on Facebook (see Graham's blog entry here for the latest) or some news about security and Twitter. But this particular piece is not directly aimed at social media sites, but at the users.

You know a problem is serious if Microsoft decides to release a fix for a vulnerability outside of its normal "Patch Tuesday" monthly schedule.

The popular image board 4chan has been implicated in attacks against websites belonging to the entertainment industry.

Hello everyone! You may have noticed this blog has been a bit quiet lately. Seems Graham has been carefully selected by the Doctor to travel the universe in the TARDIS. He's having the time of his life and sent a message back through time to see if I could contribute here. So I'm taking this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Beth Jones and I'm a Senior Threat Researcher in SophosLabs North America. I manage the day to day research and analysis activities of incoming suspicious malware threats and potentially unwanted applications that arrive in the Lab via Sophos customers, partners and prospects. I've worked in the Boston-based SophosLab facility for more than five years and brings nearly a decade of network security experience to Sophos. I'm looking forward to blogging here and sharing more info/insights from the labs.

Facebook users are proving to be easy prey for the current wave of survey scammers.

Here at SophosLabs we've been working out the best way to protect computer users against the zero-day flaw that has hit all versions of Windows.

Are you taking your USB stick security seriously? That's just one of many questions you ought to be be asking yourself right now.

A newly discovered piece of malware has created a buzz in the security industry.

The bad guys are never slow to jump on an opportunity. The latest? The launch of the Apple iPhone 4.

A British scientist has claimed to be the first human to be "infected" by a computer virus.