Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 10 2018 18:21:16

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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How one man could have hacked every Mac developer (73% of them, anyway)

An inadvertently exposed login key could have spelled cybersecurity
disaster for the Homebrew project, beloved of Mac developers everywhere.

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Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data

It's one thing to discover a data leak, it's another to find out from
a journalist that your website is leaking customer data.

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15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam

Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a
cryptocurrency scam.

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Facebook "regrets" balloons and confetti triggered by earthquake posts

Facebook apologizes for animated confetti and balloons that appeared on
"I'm safe" posts during the Lombok earthquake.

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