Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 26 2018 15:13:36

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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HTTP versus HTTPS - what's all the fuss? [VIDEO]

With non-HTTPS sites now getting actively outed as "insecure" by
browsers... well, why should we care? We explain in plain English...

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More browser extensions and apps caught spying on users

The pop-up blocking function of many apps and browser extensions appears
to obscure an ulterior motive - spying on a user's web traffic.

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Man accused of tricking men into involuntary porn

The 33-year old allegedly pretended to be a women so that he could dupe
young men into having sex, and secretly filmed them.

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Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API

Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps
are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.

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Would a bill banning bots do more harm than good?

According to the bill as it stands now, it would be okay to use a bot
as long as it discloses that it is a bot, otherwise it's "unlawful".

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Bigamists have no right to privacy on Facebook

Out of sight, out of mind? Not on Facebook, where 8,000 miles between
Illinois and Thailand is wiped out by a "here's us with the kids!" pic.

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How one hacker could have changed automotive history

That's not supposed to happen: 150GB of customer data that the world
could download... and hack.. and then upload again.

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