Controversies
- In 2007, Sophos threatened Edugeek with legal action due to the posts of one of its members. Shortly after, Sophos apologized for their actions, blaming it on a staff member convincing their legal team to send the threats, rather than a senior management decision.
- Utimaco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sophos, has been supplying data monitoring and tracking software to partners that have sold to governments such as Syria where such systems have been used to track down and persecute people uploading videos of demonstrations and atrocities to the Internet.
- A bug in a September 2012 update caused user machines to identify the update software itself as malware.
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