Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 07 2018 13:10:10

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 Bitcoin and the Dark Web hide SamSam in plain sight

Bitcoin and the Dark Web are familiar terms, but what are they and how
do they help SamSam operate in plain sight?

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iPhone chipmaker blames ransomware for factory shutdowns

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC is back up and running, and pinning the blame for
its shutdown on an infection by WannaCry ransomware.

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Mozilla faces resistance over DNS privacy test

Is Mozilla's enthusiasm for DNS-over-HTTPS getting out of hand?

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Fortnite ditches Google Play - will it undermine Android security?

Like it or not, the Play Store is a walled garden that keeps out malware.

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Windows 10 updates under fire from unhappy security admins

Windows 10 is on track to be the most popular Microsoft OS but some
security professionals aren't happy.

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Man arrested for blackmailing women with porn fakes

Police have arrested a man for blackmailing women through Facebook
using digitally manipulated images of them.

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"Unhackable" Bitfi hardware rooted within a week

Getting root access and patching firmware doesn't count as successful
hacking, apparently.

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Guilty! Court sinks children's hospital attacker found stranded on a boat

Martin Gottesfeld set off DDoS attacks against hospitals in #opJustina,
fled the country in a boat, and had to be rescued by a Disney ship.

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Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week

From the routers turning into zombie cryptojackers and the prisoners
exploiting a vulnerability to steal $225K to SamSam, the $6 million
ransomware, and more!

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