Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 06 2019 10:57:22

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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Google and Apple suspend contractor access to voice recordings

Apple and Google have announced that they will limit the way audio
recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are
accessed internally by contractors.

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Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers

Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the
US, there's a small chance you might have received an SMS with the
following text in the last few days from someone called
"3ws3r on Twitter: I'm here to warn the masses about SMS email
gateways. Please look up how to disable it".
	
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FileZilla fixes show how far we've come since Heartbleed

What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014's
Heartbleed bug?
	
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week

From NAS targeted by brute force ransomware attacks to the humans
who hear your Siri recordings, catch with everything we've written
in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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