CommentarySophosLabs Insights
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Security War Games
May 17, 2013 By David Schwartzberg- Sophos
Information security keeps evolving, but our educational methods are not evolving rapidly enough to win the cold cyberwar
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Hacker Conferences Come To Bloom In Chicago
April 29, 2013 By David Schwartzberg
SophosChicago was off the hook with two hacker conferences hosting Bruce Schneier, Josh Corman, Jericho, and many others, including a few first-time presenters
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Your Privacy Doesn't Exist
April 16, 2013 By David Schwartzberg
SophosProtecting your privacy never ends
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Cool Tech's First Showing At RSA Conference 2013
March 01, 2013 Meet five unsung heroes that showcased their new solutions at the RSA Conference. You may find something you didn't know you needed
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Microsoft Calling?
February 20, 2013 Microsoft appears proactive by calling its end users to ensure they are applying the latest security patches. Or could it be a social engineering scam?
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Canada Joins The DNSSEC Party
February 04, 2013 By David Schwartzberg- Senior Security Engineer
SophosImplementing DNSSEC will take some effort, but it plays an important role in securing the future Internet
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Android Mobile Malware Found In The Wild
January 14, 2013 By David Schwartzberg is a Senior Security Engineer
SophosFinding it hard to believe that mobile malware really exists because you haven't seen it?
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Another Zero-Day For Symantec PGP WDE
January 07, 2013 By David Schwartzberg is a Senior Security Engineer
SophosSymantec PGP Desktop is having a bumpy new year with a second zero-day vulnerability released in 13 days. Take action to protect your data
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Advisory: As New Year Approaches, Android Malware Detection Growing
December 31, 2012 By David Schwartzberg- Senior Security Engineer
SophosAs 2012 comes to a close, cybercriminals are taking advantage of your Android app purchases with mobile malware. Be on high alert after you install new Android apps from third-party markets and Google's
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BYOS: Data At Risk From Endpoint To Cloud And Back Again
December 17, 2012 By David Schwartzberg- Senior Security Engineer
SophosBring Your Own Software introduces data protection risks that BYOD attempts to account for. Enable your users with data protection encryption software on their own devices rather than playing IT whack-a-mole
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Android Riskier Than PCs: Sophos Security Threat Report 2013
December 05, 2012 By David Schwartzberg- SophosLabs
Acceleration of BYOD and cloud, challenges caused by ransomware, continued threats coming from Blackhole, and what to expect in 2013
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DoD's Bold Initiative: Secure The User, Not The Device
November 14, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Joint Information Environment effort under way to improve its ability to share information between the services, industry partners, and other government agencies
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Is A Greater Risk Of Data Loss The Trade-Off For Convenience?
October 30, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Ease of use aside, protecting customer data is never an afterthought
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Finding Against Chinese Firms Has Lessons For Security Professionals Beyond Mere Avoidance
October 11, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Sometimes the biggest threats to data security hide in plain sight
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Whether You Call It Modern Or Metro, Here Are Eight Security Tips For Windows 8
September 25, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Windows 8 a case of improved security, increased vigilance
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'Warbiking' Experiment Exposes One In Four Hotspots Have Poor, Or No, Security
September 10, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Excursion into central London streets finds obsolete WEP encryption standard still in use
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Porous Network Perimeters Sometimes Caused By People
August 16, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
What a trespassing jet skier and the Citadel Trojan have in common
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Latest Black Eye For Dropbox Shines Spotlight On Larger Problem
August 02, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Handing off your unencrypted data to a cloud storage service doesn't suddenly make it the service's problem if the data is compromised or lost. Responsibility runs in both directions
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Traveling Safe, Traveling Smart
July 05, 2012 By Brian Royer- Sophos
Keep your guard up when traveling: Bad Actors never take vacations
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Midyear Security Predictions: What You Should Know And Look Out For
June 19, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Consumerization, APTs, and cloud computing will dominate discussions during next six months
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What A Secure Top-Level Domain Can And Can't Do
May 24, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Is the .secure domain a better mousetrap, or does it lead only to the same dead end?
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Where In Hacking The Ends Justify The Means
May 08, 2012 By Brian Royer- Sophos
Do some 'ethical hackers' really have your best interest at heart, or are they more interested in making your private information public?
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Coming Soon to Your Smartphone: Mobile Ticketing That Keeps Your Transactions Safe
April 25, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs, Brian Royer
Just because smartphone rail ticketing is a first here in the states doesn't mean mobile malware writers aren't already paying attention
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The Benefits Of Top-Down Security
April 18, 2012 By Brian Royer
While enterprise-level breaches often get the attention of C-level suite executives and the members of their IT staff, industry research shows it actually falls to rank-and-file employees to apply best practices and exercise sound judgment in order to properly contain them
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Utah Medicaid Breach Exemplifies Value Of Encryption And Access Control
April 11, 2012 By Brian Royer- SophosLabs
Proactively applying private- or public-key encryption coupled with access control won't eliminate data breaches. But it will make it harder for the bad guys to take advantage of you
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