Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Sep 03 2018 09:17:43

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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Can you "see" someone's screen by listening to it? [VIDEO]

What's your video screen saying about you behind your back? We take
a look - or, at least, a listen...

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Firefox to start blocking ad-tracking by default

Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox's privacy controls so
that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.

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"Sick sadist" admits to trolling dead people on social media

He was intoxicated while posting about high-profile tragedies involving
the death of young people, adding torment to families' grief.

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Chrome: Flash is almost, almost, almost dead

If you use Google's Chrome browser, after 4 September, the latest update
will make it even harder to use in-browser Adobe Flash.

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Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal
court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori
botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.

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Google quietly bought Mastercard credit and debit card records

The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in
brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.

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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week

From Google's "unnecessary risk" for Fortnite users and NSA leaker
Reality Winner jailed to the Celebgate hacker going to jail, and more!

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Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers

A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to
punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn't.

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Jennifer Lawrence nude photo thief is going to the slammer

George Garofano has been sentenced to prison for his part in hacking
into and stealing personal images from 240 iCloud accounts.

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Forcing iPhone unlock violates Fifth Amendment, says Court of Appeals

Police want to unlock the iPhone of a woman who accused a man of rape
after it was alleged that she was actually stalking him.

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How one man could have pwned all your PHP programs

Popular PHP package repository front end Packagist turned out to have
an embarrassing command injection hole - now closed!

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