Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed May 16 2018 13:24:21

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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Chili's PoS breach: Want some credit card theft with your baby back
ribs?

Chili's is advising customers to check their bank records after
discovering the point-of-sale breach.

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Facebook can't wiggle out of facial recognition lawsuit, judge says

There are too many factual disagreements for a quick judgment, the
Judge said, including over what a faceprint actually is.

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Serious XSS vulnerability discovered in Signal

Researchers have discovered a serious cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability affecting all desktop versions of Edward Snowden's
favourite security application, Signal.

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Facebook app left 3 million users’ data exposed for four years

Highly sensitive user data collected from the app was left on a
badly secured website for anybody to get at.

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Police dog sniffs out USB drive to snare school hacker

Police traced an "electronic trail" to the suspect's house where the
USB drive was hidden.

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The next Android version's killer feature? Security patches

Not before time, Google is addressing the mess it's made of Android
updates

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The EFAIL vulnerability - why it's OK to keep on using email

The EFAIL bug shows how to trick some mail clients into turning the
email encryption tools S/MIME and OpenPGP against themselves.

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Prison phone service can expose the location of anyone with a phone

The system requires that you have legal authority to use it, but
doesn't check

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