Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Dec 10 2018 11:59:16

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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Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites

Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing
administrator usernames and passwords.

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Android click fraud apps mimic Apple iPhones to boost revenue

SophosLabs has uncovered a click fraud campaign in which malicious
Android apps masquerade as being hosted on Apple devices to earn
rewards.

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Microsoft's gutting Edge and stuffing it with Chromium

Edge joins Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, and Brave. Better for web
compatibility, but if one thing breaks, they all break.

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Microsoft calls for laws on facial recognition, issues principles

Profits are nice, but "We don't believe that the world will be best
served by a commercial race to the bottom," says President Brad Smith.

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From UPnP router attacks to the Kubernetes cloud computing bug, and
everything in between. It's time for your weekly roundup.

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