Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 15 2019 10:32:28

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 fighting pirate app developers, will insist on 2FA for coders

Are you an Apple developer? Care about security? Using 2FA? You will
be soon...

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Judge won't unseal legal docs in fight to break Messenger encryption

The Feds tried - and failed - to force Facebook to break its encryption
so investigators could listen in on suspected MS-13 gang conversations.

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Should we profit from the sale of our personal data?

Don't spend that 30 cents all in one place!

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Chinese facial recognition database exposes 2.5m people

A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed
millions of residents' personal information online.

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Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach

Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering
a serious data breach.

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Inside a GandCrab targeted ransomware attack on a hospital

A recent attack on a US hospital gives us a colorful picture of both
how a targeted ransomware attack happens, and how it can be stopped.

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