Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 13 2019 11:51:31

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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Fake news doesn't (always) fool mice

Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time
without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do.

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Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren't protected
from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.

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Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting
Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around
it.

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Android users menaced by pre-installed malware

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and
concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android
devices - malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.

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Hacking 4G hotspots - when did you last update?

Your 4G hotspot might seem very basic and low risk compared to your
phone, but you need to keep it patched just as carefully!

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Apple will hand out unlocked iPhones to vetted researchers

It formalizes the reality: "pre-jailbroken" iPhones were already on
the black market.

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Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court's go ahead

The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given
its "detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled" biometrics
collection.

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GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests

A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in
the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - right of access
requests.

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Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week

This week: hijacked home routers, SMS spam and time to update your iPhone.
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's
weekly roundup time.

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