Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Aug 23 2018 13:00:23

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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Facebook's rating you on how trustworthy you are

You, me, everyone is being rated on a scale between zero and one on
signals such as whether we waste Facebook's time by falsely flagging
posts as being false.

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Babysitting app suffers "temporary data breach" of 93,000 users

Babysitting-booking app Sitter "temporarily" exposed the personal
data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who
recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet
of Things (IoT) search engine.

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Using smart meter data constitutes a search, but court allows them
anyway

US cities using smart meters narrowly escaped a legal problem this
month when a court decided that the benefits of these IoT devices
outweighed the privacy issues created by collecting detailed home
energy data.

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Deepfakes porn service: Don't worry, we'll only use "consenting adults"

"You," or "footage that you swear is of a consenting adult," though
details on how that will be ascertained by Naughty America are sketchy.

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How an uploaded image could take over your website, and how to stop it

Bugs in the widespread graphics system Ghostscript could be exploited
remotely by crooks - so here's how to keep attackers at bay.

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