Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Mar 29 2018 16:56:02

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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Football team pays $2.5 million to criminals in transfer fee scam

According to reports, Italian football club Lazio just paid a transfer
fee of $2.5m to scammers instead of the proper recipients.

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Hackers hit 911 system, emergency dispatch affected

We don't know what the attackers were after, but they managed to knock
down one server that supported Baltimore's emergency dispatching.

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Firefox add-on limits Facebook's tracking of you

Firefox's Facebook Container extension keeps your Facebook data, well,
contained.

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Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown patch created "worse" flaw

Microsoft's updates for the Meltdown microprocessor mega-flaw
inadvertently left users running Windows 7 64-bit systems open to
a "way worse" flaw.

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Stop swearing on Skype! And don't even think about sending that nude
selfie!

Microsoft has banned nudity, swearing and other unsavoury behaviors
in Skype, Xbox, email, and Office 365 docs.

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Jaywalkers to be named, shamed and fined thanks to facial recognition

Thanks, no thanks, facial recognition and artificial intelligence
mashup.

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Unmasking Monero: stripping the currency's privacy protection

The features that make blockchains trustworthy may leave them
vulnerable to retrospective action.

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