Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Aug 08 2019 11:50:34

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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Update your iPhone - remote control holes revealed by researchers

You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server -
but it's handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!

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Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your
permission

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some
advertisers for over a year.

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Cisco 220 Series Smart Switch owners told to apply urgent patch

Businesses running any of Cisco's 220 Series Smart Switches have some
urgent patching work on their hands.

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More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to
insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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S2 Ep3: Ransomware, surveillance and data theft - Naked Security Podcast

Episode 3 of the podcast is now live. This week, host Anna Brading is
joined by Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Ben Jones.

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Microsoft puts another nail in VBScript coffin

Listen up, VBScript fans: your favourite scripting language's days are
numbered.

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