Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jun 19 2019 10:34:37

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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Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD

Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow
attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.

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Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren't securing passwords properly

A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web's most
popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to
protect their users' passwords.

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Hospitals are being suffocated by robocalls

Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients' payment data. Others pose
as the government and try to get confidential data from hospitals.

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Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)

Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out
publicly visible Venmo "drug" deals from the public-by-default company.

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