| If you would prefer to receive this email as text only, please follow this link. Sophos enews: the newswire which brings you up-to-the-minute reports on virus, spyware and spam issues, new Sophos products and enhancements. Serious security alert for Monster.com users
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A serious security breach involving the database held by careers website Monster has potentially put millions of users at risk - with hackers stealing usernames, passwords, email addresses and other information. Learn how hackers might use the information to both launch phishing campaigns and to break into other accounts you own on the internet. If you're a Monster user, Sophos recommends you take a close look at your password security.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/01/24/security-alert-monstercom Video: Twitter spammer caught on camera
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Can you trust everyone who is following you on Twitter, or might some people be shadowing you purely with the intention of malice? Find out how a Sophos security expert identitifed that he was being stalked by a spammer on the micro-blogging site, and what you should do if it happens to you. Watch the video and learn more about how to identify a social-networking spammer.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/01/26/video-twitter-spammer Apple Mac Trojan found in pirated version of Adobe Photoshop CS4
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Last week, a pirated version of Apple's iWork '09 suite was found to be infected with a Trojan horse, now it's the Mac version of Adobe Photoshop which is being downloaded from BitTorrent sites complete with a Trojan horse. Although malware on Apple Macs is much rarer than Windows, that doesn't mean Apple users should be complacent, advises Sophos.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/01/26/reports-mac-trojan Spammers defy Bill Gates's death-of-spam prophecy
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Five years after Bill Gates made a prediction that spam would be eradicated, it remains a major problem - with no end in sight. On 24 January 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Gates declared that spam would be ‘a thing of the past’ within two years. However, with the prophecy’s five year anniversary approaching, spam continues to cause a headache for companies and home users. Learn which countries are relaying the most spam in this special report from Sophos.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/01/22/spammers-defy See a Facebook scam in action
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Beware of Facebook friends contacting you from overseas asking for money for a flight back home. Sophos reports on a growing trend for scammers to break into friends' accounts in an attempt to pluck heartstrings - and a sizable amount of cash - from the unwary. Read more to see a transcript of such a scam in action.
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