Paul Ducklin looks into “Andr/SlfMite-A”, an Android SMS virus. The malware sends itself to your top 20 contacts and foists an third party app for an alternative Android software market onto your device… 
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“Towelroot” app makes it easy to root Galaxy S5 and other locked Androids…
Galaxy S5 users will be cheering. System administrators are probably groaning. Paul Ducklin looks at an Android-era variant of Hamlet’s dilemma: “To root or not to root, that is the question.”
SSCC 153: TrueCrypt, Towelroot, Cryptowall, and spam in Canada [PODCAST]
Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin present this week’s edition of the regular Sophos security podcast, the “Chet Chat.” In this episode: the TrueCrypt saga continues; the Towelroot software for unlocking Androids; ransomware after CryptoLocker; and Canada’s long, long, long-awaited anti-spam law.
37% of Canadian Justice Department fail phishing awareness test
An in-house awareness test run late last year at Department of Justice Canada has revealed that a good percentage of its employees are for the most part fairly easy to trick with phishing scams. 
Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.
Privacy and iOS 8, USMS blunder and Cryptowall ransomware – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
One minute of fun with a serious side… 60 Second Security – 21 June 2014
SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…
59 vulns in IE, teenager versus Turing, and Twitter gets wormed – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Is 59 vulns in IE some kind of record? Did a computer really pass the Turing Test? Can a network worm ever be a joke? Find out in one minute!
SSCC 151 – Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and more [PODCAST]
It’s our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn…
Gameover and CryptoLocker revisited – the important lessons we can learn
Which is worse – Gameover or CryptoLocker? What can we learn from the recent US-led takedown of this notorious crimeware? More importantly, what advice should we be passing on to other people?