Fortinet, one of the biggest computer security vendors, is suing rival Sophos alleging it poached senior staff in breach of an agreement signed when a Fortinet executive jumped ship to Sophos earlier this year.
At the center of the case, filed on Monday in federal court in San Jose, California, is the departure of Michael Valentine , a top sales executive at Fortinet. He left the company in February this year for a similar job at Sophos.
Sophos has updated its Android Mobile Security software to version 2.5 with SMS blocking capabilities as malware over text messaging continues to rise.
The smartphone security product guards users against phishing attacks launched through SMS messages by blocking suspicious messages and SMS transmissions from known bad actors. Sophos said the product isolates the messages in a special 'quarantine' folder outside of the user's inbox.
Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy claims that Sophos anti-virus has a number of serious security flaws and should be kept away from important computer systems.
Ormandy claims that Sophos needs to avoid easy mistakes and issue patches faster.
