Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jan 29 2019 12:10:37

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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Apple scrambles to fix FaceTime eavesdropping bug

Apple is scrambling to fix an embarrassingly dangerous "snooping" bug
in its popular FaceTime app.

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Japanese government will try to hack its citizens' IOT devices

Japan will hack citizens' IoT devices to mop up cyber security before
the Olympics. Don't like the notion? Here's how to lock 'em down!

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Facebook to tie together WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

Should we cheer for WhatsApp-esque, end-to-end encryption everywhere,
or tremble at creeping Facebookism?

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Thieves' names and descriptions made public on B&Q database

DIY giant B&Q reportedly suffered an Elasticsearch database breach this
week that gave up information on around 70,000 shoplifters.

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Credential-stuffing attack prompts Dailymotion password reset

Dailymotion is resetting the account passwords of an unknown number of
users after being hit by a "large-scale" credential stuffing attack.

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