Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Nov 13 2018 09:57:19

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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Google and Cloudfare traffic diverted to China; do we need to panic?

A brief outage on Monday diverted traffic to providers such as Google
and Cloudflare via China - was it a blunder or a hack?

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WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers
may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

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DEA and ICE hiding cameras in streetlights and traffic barrels

Drug and immigration cops in the US are buying surveillance cameras
to hide in streetlights and traffic barrels.

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Does wiping your iPhone count as destroying evidence?

Police say it's a felony, but a woman arrested in connection with a
drive-by shooting says she doesn't even know how to remotely wipe.

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How to fit all of Shakespeare in one tweet (and why not to do it!)

A security researcher squoze 1,299,999 words into a single tweet,
thanks to image metadata that Twitter doesn't remove.

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