Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed May 01 2019 10:38:27

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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Keeping your data safe when traveling

Our data is especially vulnerable when we ourselves are too: at border
crossings and when in unfamiliar environments.

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Millions of consumer smart devices exposed by serious security flaw

This IoT software flaw could render millions of consumer devices,
including baby monitors and webcams, open to remote discovery and hijack.

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Diabetics are hunting down obsolete insulin pumps with a security flaw

The flaw makes it possible to overwrite the devices' programming and
insert an algorithm that turns them into artificial pancreases.

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Mystery database exposes data on 80 million US households

Put on your detective hat - the researchers who found it say it's full
of people's data, but not who it belongs to.

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Crooks using hacked Microsoft email accounts to steal cryptocurrency

Hacked Microsoft email accounts are being used by criminals to compromise
victims' cryptocurrency exchange accounts and empty their funds.

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