Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Sep 02 2019 16:53:28

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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WordPress sites are being backdoored with rogue admin users

A malvertising campaign has evolved to give hackers control of entire
sites.

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Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps

If an app has more than 100 million installs, Google will pay for bugs,
even if the app makers already have their own bounty programs.

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for
misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.

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Monday review - the hot 18 stories of the week

From a system-controlling Chrome bug to the charging of 80 romance
scammers - and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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@jack's twitter attacked, phone number hacked

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised.

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