Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jul 24 2018 07:52:19

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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The Bluetooth "device snooping bug" - what you need to know

A "Bluetooth snooping" bug, dubbed CVE-2018-5383, was just announced -
are you patched, and how can you tell?

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Names and photos of Venmo "drug buyers" published on Twitter

The bot scraped Venmo's public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related
words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the "buyers."

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Google hasn't suffered an employee phishing compromise in over a year

Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account
at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware
tokens in early 2017. That's the remarkable claim made to security
writer Brian Krebs.

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Why your website is officially "not secure" from today

Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure" starting on Tuesday -
an important milestone on the road to HTTPS everywhere.

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