Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 15 2018 10:17:21

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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Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this 
week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile
accounts.

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DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid

It enacted a worst-case, "black start" scenario: swaths of the country's
grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.

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France: Let's make the internet safer! US: "How about NO?!"

Don't cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling
without court order, among other issues.

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Steganography - cool cybersecurity trick or dangerous risk? [VIDEO]

Burying secret data in plain sight- is it a clever cybersecurity trick, 
or a way to attract the very attention you wanted to avoid?

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