Ever felt as though there should be a song for system administrators? Like a Sysmas Carol, perhaps, celebrating the 0x0C days of Sysmas? Well, here it is!
Daily Archives: July 25, 2014
Sony offers games as part of $15m Playstation Network breach settlement
Sony has offered gamers digital goods as part of a $15m settlement in the 2011 PlayStation Network (PSN) data breach case.
Firefox slams Chrome again in our trustworthy browser poll
Firefox once again outpaced Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera as the most trusted web browser. But many are not happy with their browser choices when it comes to privacy. Read on for some of the interesting comments our readers submitted …
Happy SysAdminDay!
Today is SysAdmin Day, and we want to say thanks…
What’s the worst thing you can say to a sysadmin? [POLL]
“Hey, I know you’re at your wedding. But I just gave my Social Security Number to someone from Iran.”
A day in the life of a Sophos SysAdmin
Today is SysAdmin Day. We have to have a day for SysAdmins because they often don’t get the recognition they deserve. And if, like many, you’re wondering what a SysAdmin does in a day, we spoke to one of our very own system administrators, Mark Faulds, who gave us the run down…
Android “FBI Lock” malware – how to avoid paying the ransom
The latest “FBI Lock” Android ransomware reported by SophosLabs follows a familiar theme. But it has a slight sting in the tail to make it trickier to remove, so we thought we’d take you through the steps…
Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it’s your fault)
Professor Owen Mundy has mapped a million cats’ locations on to a world map in a purrfect illustration of the extent of the data that’s publicly available from photo-sharing sites. He isn’t even a cat person. He could just have easily called the project “I know where your kid sleeps”.