Subj : Sophos Virus News To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Tue Jul 31 2018 09:37:45 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!! *** SamSam: The (almost) $6 million ransomware New research reveals that SamSam ransomware has affected far more victims, and raised far more ransom, than previously thought. *** NSA hasn't closed security windows Snowden climbed through One of three problems found in an audit: two-person access controls haven't been properly implemented at data centers and equipment rooms. *** Football team in trouble over unauthorized access to rivals' videos An investigation found that Braden River High football coaching staff got unauthorized access to rivals' practice and game video footage. *** Leaky radio devices broadcast chipset data, discover researchers Researchers at EURECOM S3 Group found that they can extract crypto keys from a set of run-of-the-mill communications chips just by listening to the noise it makes. *** Spectre chip weakness can be used to steal data remotely Researchers have found a new variant of the Spectre CPU flaw that shows how attackers could steal data remotely without having to run malicious code on a local system. *** Cryptojacking for beginners - what you need to know Cryptojacking has hit the headlines in recent months. But what is it? And do you need to be worried? *** --- SBBSecho 3.05-Win32 * Origin: ILinkNet: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org (454:1/33) .