A free data security toolkit from SOPHOS
July 14, 2010 by admin
Filed under Protection Tools
Penalties for data loss can be huge … fines, law suits, lost customers and negative PR. So it’s vital your users understand how to secure your data.
Get your free data security toolkit
It’s packed with great tools to help you explain how data loss occurs and give practical advice on how to keep your data secure:
- Videos on data protection and safe passwords
- Presentations on how data is lost
- Top tips for securing your data
- Example data security policy
Individual resources
Top tips to protect your data
Practical advice for everyone on how to keep data safe.
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Protecting your sensitive data video
Straight-forward guidance on how to prevent data loss.
View online: Flash
Download: WMV
Top tips to avoid ID theft
Easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid being a victim of ID theft .
Download: PDF
Safe passwords video
Information on the importance of safe passwords and how to make yours hard to crack.
View online: Flash
Download: WMV
Data security threats
A presentation that explains how data is lost and stolen and the risks data leakage poses to individuals and organisations.
Download: PPT
The business implications of data leakage
A presentation on the impact of data loss for organisations and the four pillars of effective data security.
Download: PPT
Data security policy
An example policy to act as a guideline for organisations looking to implement or update their data security policy.
Protecting personally identifiable information white paper
A paper for IT managers on what personally identifiable information is at risk and what you can do about it.
Download: PDF
Threatsaurus: A-Z of computer and data security threats
A practical guide to the threats to your computers and your data in simple, easy-to-understand language.
Download: PDF
Contract_05_07_2010.zip – all you’ll contract is a malware infection
July 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Security News
SophosLabs is seeing another widespread malicious spam attack being sent to email addresses around the world. The emails, which have a malware-infected attachment called Contract_05_07_2010.zip, pretend to be a legal contract – however, opening the contents of the file could infect your Windows computer.
A typical email reads:
Subject: Permit for retirement
Message body:
Good day,
We have prepared a contract and added the paragraphs that you wanted to see in it.
Our lawyers made alterations on the last page. If you agree with all the provisions we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment.
We are enclosing the file with the prepared contract.
If necessary, we can send it by fax.
Looking forward to your decision.
"<name>Attached file: Contract_05_07_2010.zip
Beware ‘Your log 05.07.2010′ emails – they carry malware
July 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Security News
Malicious hackers are spamming out emails around the world disguised as a changelog, with the intention of infecting recipient’s Windows computers with the attachment.
A typical email reads as follows, although there can be minor variations in the message body:
Subject: Your log 05.07.2010
Message body:
Dear Customers,
as promised your changelog is attached,
<name>Attached file: Changelog_05_07_2010.zip
The emails, by the way, are always signed off by the first name of the person who is mentioned in the message’s from: field. That field is, of course, forged – it’s not really that person who sent you the email so don’t blame them if you get infected!
Bad tidings as Greeting_Card.zip spam spreads malware
June 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under Security News
SophosLabs are intercepting a major new malicious spam campaign which is disguising itself as a greeting card from “someone who cares about you”.
The messages, which have been sent to email addresses around the globe, typically read similar to the following:
Good afternoon,
You have just received a postcard Greeting from someone who cares about you..Please find zip file with your Greeting Card attached to this mail!
Thank you for using www.Greetings.com services !!!
Please take this opportunity to let your friends hear about us by sending them a postcard from our collection !
The messages come complete with an attached ZIP file (Greeting_Card.zip) which contains a malicious payload, designed to infect Windows computers.
Autorun Worm Invades ZIP
June 6, 2009 by admin
Filed under Security News
Stealth technique used by malware is considered a core characteristic which has been developed, improved, redesigned, and reused. Michael Tants, Threat Researcher at Regional TrendLabs in Europe, has notified us of a worm that has a unique way of hiding: on infection, WORM_AUTORUN.JFZ writes a copy of itself in every ZIP-compressed file it finds on a system.
