ZDNet: Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration. “UK-based cyber-security vendor Sophos is currently notifying customers via email about a security breach the company suffered earlier this week.”
BetaNews: Software isolation utility Sandboxie is now free; soon it will be open source too. “Sandboxie — the sandboxing tool with the tagline “Trust no program” — has been made into a free utility. But more than this, Sophos also plans to make the software open source in the near future.”
The Register: Sophos SafeGuard anything but – thanks to 6 serious security bugs . “Companies running Sophos security clients will want to update their software following the disclosure of six privilege escalation flaws in the the security suite. Sophos says its SafeGuard Enterprise Client, LAN Crypt client and Easy software are all vulnerable to the bugs, which would allow an attacker to run code at System (aka admin) level privileges.”
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