Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Mar 15 2018 09:45:27

Here is the latest news from the Naked Security Blog at Sophos, providing
news on viruses, hoaxes, scams, etc. You can request a daily summary of
this information, with links to your personal mailbox by going to:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Links to older material are available at the URL noted above.

Note that some of the content in the links provided may be what some may
contain things that some may find vulgar, sexually explicit, profane, or
otherwise offensive. This is to ALERT YOU to messages that may appear on
your system, if it becomes infected; and your computer can become
infected, if you fail to practice "safe hex".

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YouTube conspiracy videos to get links to Wikipedia and other sources

Not all controversial conspiracy videos are getting this treatment,
which will begin in coming months. Only those with "significant debate."

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Firefox makes it easy to banish push notifications

The latest version of Firefox, version 59, contains a setting designed
to let users control the bane of intrusive push notification requests.

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Anti-anti-virus service provider tied to huge hacks cops plea

Jurijs Martisevs pled guilty to running a clearinghouse for criminal
developers to see if anti-virus programs would detect their malware.

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Former Equifax exec charged with stock dumping before breach disclosure

The SEC says that Jun Ying would have lost over $117,000 if he'd waited
until after the public disclosure of the breach to sell his stocks.

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Microsoft patches RDP vulnerability. Update now!

Microsoft has released a preliminary fix for a vulnerability rated
Important and which is present in all supported versions of Windows
in circulation.

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