Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jan 17 2019 11:36:34

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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Microsoft font gives away forgery in bankruptcy case

In a case that could be straight out of a legal TV drama, a computing
font has cost a couple two houses in a Canadian bankruptcy case.

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Email crooks swindle woman out of $150K from home sale

She sent her bank account details three times, she said. Unfortunately,
they wound up in crooks' hands, and her money wound up in their pockets.

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Change your password! VoIP provider leaves huge database exposed online

A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of
call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.

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Two charged with hacking company filings out of SEC's EDGAR system

They're charged with phishing and inflicting malware to get into the
EDGAR filing system, stealing thousands of filings, and selling access.

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