Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Apr 24 2018 09:28:51

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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Can a commercial VPN really keep you anonymous? [VIDEO]

Are VPNs about privacy, about anonymity, or about both?

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Google Project Zero pulls the rug out from under Microsoft (again)

Google goes public with Windows 10 S bypass flaw after Microsoft misses
another patching deadline

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Yahoo mega-breach hacker faces nearly 8 years in prison

The hacker exposed half a billion Yahoo accounts on behalf of Russia's
FSB

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LinkedIn patches serious leak in its AutoFill plugin

Anyone could have drained their users' LinkedIn profile data

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Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website"hacking"?

A teen is being charged for downloading 7k records, 250 of which weren't
properly redacted. Who's to blame?

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From the employee from hell busted by VPN and why 'remote detonator' is
a bad Wi-Fi network name to how the NSA beats 0-days, and more!

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