Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 08 2019 18:12:19

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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Android vulnerabilities open Pie to booby-trapped image attacks

A trio of bugs could have opened Android 7, 8 and 9 to remote attackers
wielding booby-trapped image files. Here's what you need to know...

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iPhone apps record your screen sessions without asking

Absent from privacy policies, the tracking came to light after a breach
with Air Canada's mobile app, then password slurping from Mixpanel.

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Child abuse imagery found in cryptocurrency blockchain

For the second time in a year, illegal child abuse images have been
spotted inside a blockchain.

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Student gets creative with data accidentally blasted out by university

A university employee accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing
personal information on every one of the college's 4,557 students.

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Police demands Waze stop pinpointing their checkpoints

Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and
could thus be "engaging in criminal conduct," say police.

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Facebook ordered to keep apps separate unless users opt in to sharing

So much for creating a three-headed Cerberus marketing-happy chat dog!
Also, we'll soon see the who-what-huh? behind the ads we're shown.

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