Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 28 2019 10:21:28

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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Thunderclap: Apple Macs at risk from malicious Thunderbolt peripherals

Researchers have revealed how malicious Thunderbolt and PCI Express
(PCIe) peripherals could be used to compromise computers running macOS,
Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

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US House and Senate debate new data privacy law

A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users'
data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*

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US pushed Russian troll factory offline during US midterm elections

The US blocked internet access to Russian trolls who, they say, were
trying to spread FUD.

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