Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Nov 26 2018 17:34:43

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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That Black Mirror episode with the social ratings? It's happening IRL

Not picking up after your dog will cost you 10 points, for example,
in China's Black Mirror-esque plan to socially score citizens.

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The phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist

A Silicon Valley exec lost $1m in cryptocoin savings when a 21-year-old
allegedly SIM-swapped his phone.

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Spectre mitigation guts Linux 4.20 performance

One of Intel's fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw appears to
have taken a big bite out of the performance of the latest Linux kernel.

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Monday review - the hot 18 stories of the week

From the deletion of 6,500 Dark Web sites to a Reddit Raspberry Pi
riddle, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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