Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 21 2019 10:35:18

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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Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one

Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing
passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.

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Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back

Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after
UK's National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.

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Sorry, we didn't mean to keep that secret microphone a secret, says Google

It's been off by default, Google says - not much consolation to those who
don't cotton to the notion of a "secret" listening gadget.

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Facebook hoax? Can you sniff out gas station card skimmers using Bluetooth?

A viral post suggests (wrongly) that card skimmers always use Bluetooth.
Anyway, just looking at nearby Bluetooth names doesn't help much...

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