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January 2013

Sophos announced the appointment of Mary Winfield as Senior Vice President

“Our goal of ‘Security made simple’ can only be fully realized when every interaction Sophos has with customers and partners exceeds their expectations,” said Kris Hagerman, chief executive officer of Sophos. “Mary has an extraordinary track record in building dynamic and high-impact customer care and customer support organizations, and we are thrilled to welcome Mary

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SophosLabs: Android malware intercepts SMS messages to steal banking info

One of our SophosLabs researchers, Anna Szalay, made an interesting discovery recently: a new type of Android malware that slips in through a security hole in the USB debugging feature that allows developers to modify their Android devices. Naked Security expert Paul “Duck” Ducklin reports that this malware can intercept your SMS text messages to

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Life after TrueCrypt: 5 tips for better data security

TrueCrypt’s sudden demise Despite being nominally open source software, TrueCrypt was always a bit secretive. Unlike many free, open source projects, the main developers and maintainers were unknown to the community. Someone, apparently one of the maintainers of TrueCrypt, shut down the project, claimed the product was not secure, and replaced it with a modified

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Latest Free Version of Sophos Mobile Security Delivers Application Protection, Faster Scanning and Web Protection

 An equally alarming industry statistic, users not running the most recent version of Android (comprising more than 90 percent of active users) are vulnerable to known exploits, resulting in a more than 600 percent increase in Android malware infections.In order to keep up with and prevent these risks, Sophos has introduced the latest version of

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