Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Mar 05 2019 10:20:49

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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Companies are flying blind on cybersecurity

IT managers are flying blind in the battle to protect their companies
from cyber attacks, according to a new Sophos survey.

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Comcast security nightmare: default "0000" PIN on everybody's account

It didn't require an account PIN to switch carriers. Everybody uses
0000, it said, making it easier for customers' and phone hijackers.

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Update now! Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaw now being exploited

Adobe has issued an urgent patch for a critical flaw in the ColdFusion
web development platform it says is being exploited in the wild.

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Windows IoT Core exploitable via ethernet

Microsoft's IoT version of Windows is vulnerable to an exploit that
could give an attacker complete control of the system.

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Apple gets bug for free, while HackerOne declares first $1m bug hunter

An Argentinian has garnered $1m in bug bounties, while a German
researcher has given up on getting any bounty at all from Apple.

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