Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Mar 19 2018 11:01:28

Here is the latest news from the Naked Security Blog at Sophos, providing
news on viruses, hoaxes, scams, etc. You can request a daily summary of
this information, with links to your personal mailbox by going to:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Links to older material are available at the URL noted above.

Note that some of the content in the links provided may be what some may
contain things that some may find vulgar, sexually explicit, profane, or
otherwise offensive. This is to ALERT YOU to messages that may appear on
your system, if it becomes infected; and your computer can become
infected, if you fail to practice "safe hex".

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Modified BlackBerrys sold to drug dealers, five indicted

A cocaine bust has led to the indictment of five execs at "uncrackable"
phone seller Phantom Secure.

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Russia accused of burrowing into US energy networks

Russia has been accused of so many things recently, it's easy to lose
track. Now we can add cyber-intrusion and more to the list.

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Facebook loses control of 50 million users' data, suspends analytics firm

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica for violating its platform
policies.

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From the 4-month HTTPS deadline and Microsoft's RDP vulnerability patch
to the burger flipping bot fired after one day, and more!

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5 Protective Ps to help you prevent network takeovers [VIDEO]

Recently, we've seen crooks unleashing ransomware and cryptojacking on
whole networks at a time - so here are 5 tips to defend yourself.

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