Sophos RAPIL: Recognition and Analysis of Potentially Intruding Lifeforms. An innovative new way of stopping malware authors and hackers before they can even write bad code. April Fool's Day joke uploaded on 1 April 2008. Find out more at http://www.sophos.co m/security/blog/2008 /04/1246.html and upload your pictures at http://www.flickr.co m/groups/ra-pil
Sophos discovers flaw which could lead to identity theft. Even if you had told Facebook to make your date of birth secret, it could still be viewed because of a security hole.
Experts at SophosLabs say that Facebook appears to have now fixed the security hole (15 July 2008). Learn more at http://www.sophos.co m/security/blog/2008 /07/1578.html
As the websites in Georgia and Russia suffer from distributed denial of service attacks in the wake of conflict in South Ossetia, SophosLabs demonstrates what impact that has on people trying to visit the sites.
More information about the DDoS attacks on Russian and Georgian websites at http://www.sophos.co m/blogs/gc/
Sophos describes how an email malware campaign, which poses as an airline e-ticket, is stopped as both spam and a Trojan horse.
Learn more at http://www.sophos.co m/blogs/gc/g/2008/08 /01/video-the-e-tick et-email-malware-cam paign/