Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Aug 07 2019 12:02:49

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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Don't let the crooks "borrow" your home router as a hacking server

Crooks don't have to break *into* your network to benefit - they can
bounce *off* it so you take the blame and look like a hacker yourself.

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Scammers recruiting money mules on dating sites is on the rise, says FBI

It's no longer enough to be wary of flash-in-the-pan "lovers" who ask you
to send money; now they're asking you to open accounts for them.

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Don't fall for fake Equifax settlement sites, warns FTC

Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up
to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.

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Banking PINs exposed in Monzo secure storage slip-up

When is a secure PIN not a secure PIN? When you accidentally store it in
your log files.

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Latest Android patches fix critical "QualPwn" Wi-Fi flaws

The August 2019 security bulletin is out - and two of the critical flaws
could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.

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