Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 17 2018 17:36:31

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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Apple gets cored: 90GB of "secure files" stolen by high schooler

An Aussie high schooler pleaded guilty on Thursday to hacking Apple
servers multiple times.

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"Foreshadow" flaw found in Intel CPUs - what to do

For Intel and more than a billion computers with Intel CPUs, the
microprocessor flaws just keep coming.

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US rolls back cyberwarfare rules

The Trump administration has rolled back Obama-era rules that outlined
how to launch cyberattacks on other nations.

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Romance scam victim allegedly plotted to kill her mother for cash

An identity theft online dating scam led police to uncover texts that
detailed the murder-for-hire plot.

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Sextortion and what to do about it [VIDEO]

How to handle sextortion - where someone tries to blackmail you over
your sexuality or sex life...

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