Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 06 2018 12:42:25

Here is the latest news from the Naked Security Blog at Sophos, providing
news on viruses, hoaxes, scams, etc. You can request a daily summary of
this information, with links to your personal mailbox by going to:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Links to older material are available at the URL noted above.

Note that some of the content in the links provided may be what some may
contain things that some may find vulgar, sexually explicit, profane, or
otherwise offensive. This is to ALERT YOU to messages that may appear on
your system, if it becomes infected; and your computer can become
infected, if you fail to practice "safe hex".

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Facebook's new fake news strategy is… decide for yourself!

Facebook is getting rid of fact-checkers and leaving it up to readers
to decide what's real

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Intel won't fix Spectre flaws in older chips

If your PC runs one of Intel's older microprocessors, bad news

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Washington DC "awash" with fake cell towers

DHS has detected IMSI catchers that track phones and intercept calls

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WhatsApp phishing - how it works, and what to do [VIDEO]

When you think of phishing, you probably think of email - but the
crooks know how to abuse closed messaging systems like WhatsApp, too.

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Sears Holdings, Delta and others leak credit cards in "multibreach"

If a third party leaks credit card numbers they were holding on your
behalf... it's still your neck on the block.

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Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email

The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile
data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users' data.
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