Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Dec 20 2018 13:18:10

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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Facebook denies sharing private messages without user knowledge

Facebook hit back at press reports this week that highlighted a deep
network of privileged data-sharing partnerships between the social
media company and other large organizations.

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Most home routers lack simple Linux OS hardening security

A new assessment of 28 popular models for home users failed to find
a single one with firmware that had fully enabled underlying security
hardening features offered by Linux.

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Glitter bomb engineer exacts revenge on parcel thieves

Mark Rober "over-engineered the crap" out of it, including motion
detection, geofencing, and 4 cameras to record some priceless
reactions.

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Phone repair shop employees accused of stealing nude photos

Keep your passwords safe, since: "Quintal: Did the girl that sounded
hot bring her computer last night? Preuit: No Quintal: I'm depressed"

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