Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri May 31 2019 10:35:48

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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Unpatched Docker bug allows read-write access to host OS

Suse developer Aleksa Sarai has uncovered a bug in the way that the
container framework handles path names.

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Flipboard data breach - what users should do now

Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard - one billion app
downloads from Google Play and counting - has become the latest
internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.

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Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS

"...nation-state actors have demonstrated intent and capability to
leverage VPN services and vulnerable users for malicious purposes."

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Facial recognition used to strip adult industry workers of anonymity

A name-and-shame database is supposed to "save" husbands from wives
who have appeared on porn sites.

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