Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon May 27 2019 15:30:43

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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Serious Security: Don't let your SQL server attack you with ransomware

Tales from the honeypot: this time a MySQL-based attack. Old tricks
still work, because we're still making old mistakes - here's what to do.

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Any advance on $1.2m for this virus-infested netbook?

Can you ever call malware art? That question is now up for debate as
a Chinese internet artist puts a laptop full of viruses up for auction.

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Safari test points to a future with tracker-free ads

Apple thinks it has come up with a way for advertisers to track how well
their ads are doing without compromising user privacy.

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Batterygate news: Apple to warn users if iOS updates throttle iPhones

Competition regulators investigated Apple due to concerns that people
were needlessly repairing or replacing slow phones.

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Google Ad Exchange in data privacy probe

It was triggered by a complaint filed by Dr. Johnny Ryan, CPO of
privacy-focused Brave browser, which is fighting Google's search
domination.

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