Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 09 2019 11:05:47

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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Blackmailed for Bitcoin - exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand

Here's a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the
biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.

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Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A "preferred Facebook Marketing Partner" is alleged to have tracked
millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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Parents, it's time to delete Pet Chat from your child's LeapPad

LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all
that's left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.

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Your Skype Translator calls may be heard by humans

A Skype Translator insider claims it's good because humans are
listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.

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