Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Sep 04 2018 09:30:14

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 refusing to give police your Facebook password can lead to prison

A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his
Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old's murder.

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Governments demand companies allow access to data, or else

A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to
get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them
or not.

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Hollywood accuses itself of piracy

As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far)
are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.

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Google Ads cracks down on tech support scammers

The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise
these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.

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