Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jul 18 2018 13:50:50

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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Could semantic icons replace passwords and PINs?

SemanticLock replaces passwords, PINs and patterns with a sequence
of graphical icons which work semantically.

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21-year-old spy tool developer faces prison

Luminosity RAT sold for as little as $39.99 and could spy, steal
passwords, mine cryptocurrency, and launch DDoSes.

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"Astoundingly stupid" Kodak (not really) Bitcoin miner bites the dust

Deemed a scam from its CES debut, Kodak says KashMiner was never
licensed, and its promised payouts portrayed ignorance of how Bitcoin
works.

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Don't take fright - get web security right [PODCAST]

Catch up with Day 2 of our Security SOS Week - here's the second episode
of our week-long online security summit.
	
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How to spoof someone's GPS navigation to send them the wrong way

Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that it's possible to
spoof turn-by-turn GPS road navigation to send users to specific wrong
locations.

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