Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 06 2019 14:53:03

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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Baldr malware unpicked with a little help from crooks' bad opsec

New research from Sophos takes an exhaustive look at the Baldr
password stealer.

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NVIDIA patches high-severity bugs in Windows GPUs and SHIELD

NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver,
three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.

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Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000

His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya
for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.

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GitHub "encourages" hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach

The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being
"friendly" (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers' posts.

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Attackers ransom bookseller's exposed MongoDB database

Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing
2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librer”a Porr£a.

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