Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 02 2019 13:36:16

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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S2 Ep2: EvilGnome, leaky browser add-ons and BlueKeep - Naked Security
Podcast

Listen to the latest episode now!

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Space agency uses Raspberry Pi to solve satellite encryption puzzle

The European Space Agency thinks it's found a cheaper way to control
a small module - and it's built around a tiny Raspberry Pi Zero.

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Club Penguin Rewritten breach caused by rogue admin backdoor

The hugely popular gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten suffered a data
breach that exposed 4m user accounts.

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Anime filter glitches, exposing face of one extremely smart vlogger

Pretending to be a hot young thing brought in beaucoup bucks. Last
laugh department: "world's best granny" now has more followers than
ever.

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Facebook is working on mind-reading

The completely non-evil-genius goal: a wearable, noninvasive device
that could translate thoughts into text, for the speech impaired or VR.

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Researchers hack camera in fake video attack

Tampering with surveillance cameras is a common activity for Hollywood
heroes and criminals alike. Now, researchers have shown how they can
do it in real life.

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North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083

The county could only claw back some of the $2,504,601 it paid to a
scammer posing as a contractor working on building a new high school.

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Five Eyes nations demand access to encrypted messaging

The alliance wants tech companies to build backdoor access to users'
encrypted data, by force if necessary.

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"Urgent/11" flaws affect 200 million devices - from routers to elevators

There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: "the most widely used
operating system you may never have heard about".

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