Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 18 2019 13:39:22

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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Series 2 launch episode - RDP exposed [PODCAST]

The Naked Security Podcast is back. Listen now, and let us know what
you think!

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Hacked Bluetooth hair straighteners are too hot to handle

The Glamoriser Smart Bluetooth straightener offers up yet another
example of how not to add a risky product to the Internet of Things
(IoT).

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Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

Google's throwing in the towel on XSS Auditor and putting its trust
in Trusted Types instead.

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Still not using HTTPS? Firefox is about to shame you

Two years after promising to report all HTTP-based web pages as insecure,
Mozilla is about to deliver.

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RDP exposed: the wolves already at your door

While everyone waits for BlueKeep to be exploited, another RDP threat
is already at the door, according to new research from Sophos.

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Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany's schools

Citing privacy issues, Germany just banned its schools from using
Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, and Apple's iWork cloud services.

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Facebook rolls out anti-scam reporting tool in UK

Facebook has coughed up £3m to help launch an anti-scam service as
well as introducing a tool to report scam ads on its UK site.

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Researchers hide data in music - and human ears can't detect it

It's now possible to secretly transfer data inside music without
turning it into unlistenable mush

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