Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Oct 30 2018 15:49:30

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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Alleged SWATter will plead guilty to dozens of serious new federal
charges

The long list of charges includes bank fraud, involuntary manslaughter,
cyberstalking and wire fraud.

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Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection

A now very "ex"-government employee provides a teachable moment.

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Snakes in the grass! Malicious code slithers into Python PyPI repository

Not for the first time, typosquatting malware made its way into an open
source code repository.

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China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers

Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually
man-in-the-middle surveillance.

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Self driving cars learn (from us) about who to sacrifice in a crash

It's bad news for overweight, elderly, male jaywalkers.

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"Right to repair" gets a boost from new DMCA software rules

It just got easier for owners of a wide range of home devices to hack
and repair their software.

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Call of Duty players caught up in cryptocurrency theft racket

The FBI recently busted a group of criminals who seem to be using
Call of Duty to coordinate cryptocurrency thefts.

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Researchers exploit Microsoft Word through embedded video

A group of researchers has found a way to infect computers via Word
documents without triggering a security warning.

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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week

From a popular WordPress plugin harbouring a zero-day to punishments
for phone-slowing Apple and Samsung, and all the stories in between.
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's
weekly roundup time.

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