Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Sep 18 2018 16:39:20

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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Hackers selling research phished from universities on WhatsApp

Millions of documents have been stolen from top UK universities and
are being sold over WhatsApp for as little as œ2.

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91 "child friendly" Android apps accused of exploitation

New Mexico's AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus
Google's and Twitter's ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids'
data.

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State Department scores an F on 2FA security

Senators have discovered that the State Department is breaking the
law by not using multi-factor authentication in its emails.

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