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How do things stand with you in terms of protection for personal PCs and Macs? Do the following situations sound familiar? Missed updates? Calls from your mother when the PC has once again been hit by a virus? Complicated installation processes? If you answer „Yes“ to some or all of these questions, then we have […]

At Sophos, we’re no strangers to next-generation security. You can see it across our entire product line, from our powerful Security Heartbeat technology that leverages Sophos Central to facilitate communication between endpoints and the network, to our advanced behavioral analytics and malicious traffic detection features (and a whole lot more). Today, with the introduction of

Just like the visible stars in any night sky, the number of IoT devices may soon be countless and with that, count on at least one vulnerability and probably more for each device. IoT is exacerbating concerns over mobile security threats, as well as exploits that lack a mobile component. IoT will play a role

SophosLabs has just released a research paper on a new way that cybercriminals are distributing malware that makes money by “borrowing” your computer to mine cryptocurrency. The report by Attila Marosi, Senior Threat Researcher at Sophos, investigates the Mal/Miner-C malware, which criminals are using to mine the cryptocurrency Monero. In this paper, Marosi examines how

Apple has made iOS 10 available and will push upgrade notifications out to devices over the next few days. Some early adopters even have iOS 10 already installed! Good news – Sophos Mobile Control is ready with same-day support of iOS 10. Once iOS 10 is loaded onto your users’ devices, it’ll be supported by

We’re excited to announce that the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management* is out, and Sophos is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the fifth year running. We continue to be one of only three vendors in the Leaders Quadrant. And we think that says a lot about our standing in the eyes

The Shadow Brokers are a self-styled hacker group that recently kicked off a tongue-in-cheek media campaign claiming that they’d penetrated the NSA (or someone like that – they’re referring to the victim as the Equation Group). Shadow Brokers say they’ve made off with a virtual warehouse of tip-top “cyberweapons” that they plan to auction off.

Being an IT security professional isn’t easy these days; the cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving. Ransomware, Trojans, Malware, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most common types of threats. Each has different vectors and flavors, and each brings its own risks and costs. IT pros clearly need multiple layers

In many parts of the world right now we are right in the middle of back-to-school season. Kids are getting excited to see their friends again and head back to the classroom, and are preparing for the best possible experience in school this year. But what about at home? With so much of a child’s

Sophos officially announced the release of Sophos Email, our brand new secure email gateway solution, as an addition to our Email product range and our Sophos Central management platform. It’s engineered to provide our leading threat and spam protection to users of Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365, Google Apps for Work and many other email