Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon May 06 2019 10:29:45

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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Mozilla bug throws Tor Browser users into chaos

A Mozilla bug has made everyone's Firefox addons 'untrustworthy' -
including turning off the important NoScript security feature in Tor.

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Belgian programmer solves cryptographic puzzle - 15 years too soon!

Belgian coder Bernard Fabrot just finished a 3.5-year computational
marathon, solving a fascinating cryptopuzzle set at MIT back in 1999.

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Criminals are hiding in Telegram - but backdoors are not the answer

When it comes to an easy life, the criminals behind the fearful Anubis
banking malware have become big fans of Twitter and, increasingly, the
secure messaging of Telegram.

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