Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Mar 13 2019 12:02:08

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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"FINAL WARNING" email - have they really hacked your webcam?

In the last 24 hours, SophosLabs received 1,700 samples of just one new
sextortion campaign. Good news? It's all a pack of lies. Don't reply.
Don't engage.

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Chrome will soon block drive-by-download malvertising

A new Chrome feature hopes to choke off one of the most malicious forms
of malware infection: drive-by advertising downloads.

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Update now! WordPress abandoned cart plugin under attack

Hackers have been spotted targeting websites running unpatched versions
of the WordPress plugin Abandoned Cart for WooCommerce.

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Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies' sensitive data

Easily guessable URLs led to what should have been big companies' very
private data. Even Box itself was found to be exposing folders.

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New bill would give parents an "Eraser Button" to delete kids' data

The COPPA overhaul would ban targeting ads at kids under 13 and ad
targeting based on race, socioeconomics or geolocation on kids under 15.

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