Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Dec 12 2018 09:44:30

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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Samsung fixes flaws that could have let attackers hijack your account

Flaws in the mobile site were leaving users vulnerable to attackers
who could have reset their user passwords and hijacked their accounts.

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Google+ to power down early after second security hole found

Google has disclosed the second security hole in its Google+ social
network in three months.

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Text CAPTCHAs easily beaten by neural networks

As CAPTCHA-haters know to their frequent irritation, the death of the
text-based Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and
Humans Apart tends to be exaggerated.

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Phones are selling location data from "trusted" apps

Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US,
updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times
has found.

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