Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 14 2019 10:26:22

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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What's behind this 1,000-character phishing URL?

Bleeping Computer learned of a strange phishing campaign which uses
an unusually long URL - but why?

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Apple App Store stuffed with hardcore porn and gambling apps

The apps, which violate content policies, got in there via the same
Enterprise Certificate program that Facebook and Google exploited.

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Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year

317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide
bug-crunching spree.

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Update now! Microsoft and Adobe's February 2019 Patch Tuesday is here

Internet Explorer (IE) may have launched way back in 1995 but nearly
a quarter of a century later it's still creating work for Microsoft
and Windows users.

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Top tips for Valentine's Day - and the rest of the year! [VIDEO]

Our top tips for Valentine's Day and beyond - all in just 5 minutes.
Enjoy!

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