Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue May 08 2018 08:49:30

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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Pentagon orders military exchanges to pull Chinese smartphones over
security risks

Huawei and ZTE are already telephones non gratae, tied too close for
comfort to the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army
back home.

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Budget Android manufacturer Blu settles with FTC over privacy fiasco

These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours,
with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.

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The Man on the Train: Caught with his phishing loot

How does it end for phishing attackers who get caught? In a case that
has been working its way through the British courts since last September,
the unusual answer is in the first-class carriage of a train travelling
between Wales and London.

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Tuesday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From the medical devices needing a security patch and Google Maps's open
redirect flaw to VW and Audi's infotainment systems remote hacking, and
more!

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