Sophos News

NEW YORK -- The discovery of sophisticated new malware, dubbed "Flame" has made headlines around the world in the last few days, again raising the frightening prospect of cyber warfare .

The person in charge of the botnet, Bredolab, which took control some 30 million computers worldwide, has been given a 4 year prison sentence in Armenia.

What do Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher have in common? If you believed everything you read on Twitter, it would be that they'd both recently died.

Most people reading this page will have seen some form of fake anti-virus utility running on a Windows PC at one point or another.

The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy.

To help battle the growing malware problem on Macs and OS X, Kaspersky Labs has recommended creating a non-administrator account for everyday activities, using a sandboxed Mac Web browser such as Chrome, uninstalling the standalone Flash Player, uninstalling Java or disabling it in browsers, and using Office 2011 instead of 2008.

Graham Cluley at Sophos tells us that Iran has people working on an anti-virus program, quite possibly in reaction to the Stuxnet virus that struck their own computers a couple of years ago.

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