Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jan 16 2019 15:26:05

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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Are you sure those WhatsApp messages are meant for you?

Abby Fuller got a shock when she logged into WhatsApp using a new
telephone number. She found someone else's messages waiting for her.

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Intel patches another security flaw in SGX technology

Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting
is a flaw discovered in the company's Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

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Beware buying Fortnite's V-Bucks, you could be funding organized crime

Credit card thieves are laundering money by purchasing the in-game
currency V-Bucks, then selling it back at a discount to players.

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Feds can't force you to unlock your phone with finger or face, says judge

The landmark decision asserts the same legal protection for biometrics
that we're given for passcodes.

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Windows 7 users get fix for latest updating woe

Microsoft has vexed its Windows 7 users with a misbehaving update that
caused licensing and networking errors.

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Blockchain burglar returns some of $1m crypto-swag

In an interesting move for villainy, a thief who stole over $1 million
from the Ethereum Classic blockchain has given some of it back.

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Facebook to start fact-checking fake news in the UK

Facebook's relying on demotion instead of removal, so users will still
be able to share content, even if Full Fact rates it inaccurate.

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Is fake-news sharing driven by age, not politics?

Researchers say people over 65 are seven times more likely to share fake
news than 18 to 29-year-olds.

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New year, new career? How some Sophos experts got into cybersecurity

We asked a number of people working in different roles at Sophos how they
made their way into the industry.

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