Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Apr 09 2018 10:58:45

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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5 Facebook facepalms (just last week)

Facebook has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons, and
it's only getting worse.

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Hacker mines up to $1 million in Verge after exploiting major bug

According to a forum post, a malicious miner appeared to have found
a way to subject Verge to a widely-hypothesised blockchain takeover
called a "51% attack".

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Thousands of Google employees call for company to cancel Pentagon work

Google's helping the Pentagon to build AI for drones, and a vocal group
of employees have asked the company to drop the project.

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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week

From Washington's fake cell towers and the Youtuber sued by In-N-Out
Burger to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure and
more!

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Crooks are swapping out chips on payment cards, says US Secret Service

The crooks don't steal your whole card, which you'd probably notice,
but just the chip from it...

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