Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jul 17 2018 13:28:49

Here's the latest anti-virus and System Security news from the Naked
Security Blog at Sophos. You can access these for yourself at

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

You can also sign up to receive a daily digest (Monday through Friday)
of security issues and links, delivered right to your email box.

It's a reminder to PRACTICE SAFE HEX!! You could lose your data via
an attack of malware, ransomware, or be a victim of identity theft,
otherwise.

Note that text in some of the links may content text that some may
find vulgar, profane, offensive, explicitly sexual, etc. -- these are
provided to alert you that your system may have been infected!!

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Welcome to the wonderful world of GDPR! Where next? [PODCAST]

Catch up with Day 1 of our Security SOS Week - here's the first episode
of our week-long online security summit.
	
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Guy jailed for refusing to unlock phones

The phones are new, he said, and he can't remember the passcodes.

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Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking

The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12
Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election
hacking.

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Facebook refuses to remove fake news, but will demote it

Facebook last week grappled with journalists' questions about how serious
its fight against fakery is, given it puts up with InfoWars.

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Twitter pops a lot of famous people's follower bubbles

It wiped out accounts locked due to misbehavior, obliterating about 4
followers for non-famous mortals and millions for the glitterati.

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USB Restricted Mode in iOS 11.4.1 now available to all iPhone users

The latest version of iOS includes bug fixes and at least one new feature
that might be of interest to security-minded users.

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Ex-Apple engineer charged with stealing self-driving car secrets

He was arrested on his way to China to start a job at autonomous vehicle
start-up Xiaopeng Motors, Apple said in court documents.

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From the Linux community with malware woes and Google's new nuisance call
screening to the viral airplane romance that should worry us all, and
more!

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