Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Apr 23 2019 15:53:12

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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Phone fingerprint scanner fooled by chewing gum packet

A video has surfaced claiming to show someone unlocking a Nokia 9
by tapping a gum packet against the fingerprint scanner.

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Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

If you used WiFi Finder, your passwords to both public and private
networks have been left online in an unprotected database.

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Once again, it's 123456: the password that says "I give up"

A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps
explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.

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Tuesday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

A day late! From the weakness in several VPNs to the Internet Explorer
browser flaw, and much more - catch up on everything we wrote last week.

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