Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu May 02 2019 15:09:40

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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World Password Day - what (NOT!) to do

Yeah, yeah, yeah... we really ought to get around to picking proper
passwords for everything - and here's why!

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DHS policies allow unlimited, warrantless device search

Newly revealed policies show border agents can search devices for
pretty much any reason, including if some other agency asked them to.

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Is a sticky label the answer to the IoT's security problems?

How can IoT security be improved? The UK Government just published
new details of its surprising and unfashionable answer.

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Extortionists leak data of huge firms after IT provider refuses to pay

The data was published after "Boris Bullet-Dodger" failed to get
Citycomp to cough up.

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US Government halves deadline for applying critical patches to 15 days

US federal agencies must fix their security bugs twice as quickly under
new rules issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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