Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Apr 29 2019 11:26:10

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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NIST tool boosts chances of finding dangerous software flaws

NIST thinks it has reached an important milestone in complex software
testing with something called Combinatorial Coverage Measurement (CCM).

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Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations

The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange
Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.

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Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge

It's one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the
warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.

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Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware

Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy
streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.

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Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week

From DNS over HTTPS to Microsoft's expiration policy - and everything in
between. It's weekly roundup time.

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