Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Feb 26 2019 11:03:01

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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Mozilla fears encryption law could turn its employees into insider
threats

Mozilla has told the Australian government that its anti-encryption
laws could turn its own employees into insider threats.

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ICANN demands DNSSEC combats DNS hijacking

DNS security is under serious threat from cyberattackers and domain
overseer ICANN wants internet companies to do something about it.

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Facebook apps secretly sending sensitive data back to the mothership

New York governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation into how
Facebook is still allowing blabby apps to violate its privacy policies.

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Android nudges passwords closer to the cliff edge with FIDO2 support

Android's now on board with saying goodbye to passwords: more than a
billion devices now support FIDO2.

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Missile warning sent from hijacked Tampa mayor's Twitter account

Tampa's mayor was trying to regain control of his Twitter account this
week after it was used to post bomb threats and child sex abuse images.

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Facebook tricked kids into in-game purchases, say privacy advocates

Unsealed court documents show that Facebook referred to big-spending
kids as "whales" - a term borrowed from the casino industry.

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Adobe patches the same critical Reader flaw twice in one week

Adobe has issued a new fix addressing a vulnerability in Reader it
thought it had fixed on 12 February as part of Patch Tuesday.

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Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week

From leaky password managers to nearly 100 million new stolen data
records, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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Nike's $350 "Back to the Future" trainers crash, have feet of brick

Have you ever needed to boot a shoe that was a brick? Owners of Nike's
$350 "self-lacing" trainers say they have.

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