Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 19 2019 10:41:39

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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Facebook: we logged 100x more Instagram plaintext passwords than we
thought

Facebook has updated 'tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords
ended up in logfile' to say it was more like a million.

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Serious Security: Ransomware you'll never find - and how to stop it

What if you got hit by ransomware - but the malware program itself was
on the other side of the world where you'd never find it?

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Facebook user data used as bargaining chip, according to leaked docs

Leaked internal docs used to claim "privacy was an afterthought" at
Facebook

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Google plays Whack-A-Mole with naughty Android developers

Android developers without a track record are going to be submitted
to more checks in order to stamp out those of "bad faith."

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Chrome flaw on iOS leads to 500 million unwanted pop-up ads

If you own an iOS device and use the Chrome browser, you may have
encountered some strange-looking pop-up ads in the past week.

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Oracle issues nearly 300 patches in quarterly update

Oracle's latest security update covers 297 vulnerabilities, many of
which come with a "patch now" warning.

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