Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Sep 05 2019 16:59:15

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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Raspberry Pi blasted into space, sends back video of Earth

Got a Pi? Here's a cool project idea for you...

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Scammers deepfake CEO's voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer

The voice had the hint of a German accent and the same "melody" that
an employee recognized in his boss's voice.

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Firefox won't follow Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, says Mozilla

Mozilla has told developers not to fret - it won't follow Google in
tweaking its browser to be unfriendly to ad blocking software.

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Android gets September update as price of flaws soars

When is a security update not a security update? When it's patching
flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.

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Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a
co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised
release.

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S2 Ep7: iPhone attack, Twitter hack and Android bots -
Naked Security Podcast

Episode 7 of the Naked Security podcast is available now!

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Facebook loses control of key used to sign Android app

What should be a private key used to vouch for the 'Free Basics by
Facebook' app was used to sign unrelated apps.

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