Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Apr 24 2019 10:08:31

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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Ex-student records himself using USB Killer to fry college computers

Vishwanath Akuthota faces a potential ten-year stretch after killing
at least 66 computers at his former college.

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NYPD forgets to redact facial recognition docs, asks for them back

The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was
already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them
back.

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Gunpoint domain hijack turns out to have been a family affair

The owner of State Snaps hired his cousin to break into the home of
the owner of DoItForState.com to force him to transfer the domain.

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DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is
about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

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