Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Oct 26 2020 15:29:04

Here is the latest information from the Naked Security Blog from Sophos.
You can go to nakedsecurity.sophos.com to read these. You can also sign
up to have these delivered to your email during the week.

Be sure that you PRACTICE SAFE HEX -- and that you keep your anti-virus,
anti-malware, anti-spyware, and anti-ransomware software up to date. 

Do NOT open any email attachments, even if they appear to be from someone
you know!! Even if you were notified in advance that the file was coming
before it arrived, use EXTREME CAUTION when opening attachments, or even
clicking on links. 

If it appears your email has been spoofed, change your access password 
immediately!! It's best to use 2 unrelated words (the longer, the better), 
separated by a non-alphabetic character...such as BOAT+TOUCH (please do 
NOT use this example). While you can't use high ascii characters online,
you can use numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and symbols.

The use of a Password Manager, such as Dashlane, is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. 
That way, you can create a different password for each site you visit, 
and you don't have to remember them...plus, you can make it a complex 
password, that's difficult for someone to guess. If they do, they can 
steal your identity, and make you liable for things like credit card 
debt, etc.

Lastly, if your browser seemingly locks up, telling you to call Microsoft
at a certain number, do NOT call the number!! Instead, close your web
browser, clear the cache and cookies, do a full virus scan, then restart
the browser. You may also want to reboot the computer afterwards.

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Naked Security Live - Who's watching you? 5 mobile privacy tips

Here's the latest Naked Security Live video - enjoy 
(and please share with your friends)!

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S3 Ep3: Cryptography, hacking and pwning Chrome [Podcast]

Listen to the latest Naked Security podcast!

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Time for a mobile privacy reset?

Can you remember which permissions you gave to what apps, and why? 
Nor can we... time for a reset!

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Chrome zero-day in the wild - patch now!

Exploitable bug in Chrome - patch now!

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Russian "government hackers" charged with cybercrimes by the US

What can we learn from the US DOJ indictments against the "Sandworm Team"?

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Naked Security Live - Ping of Death: are you at risk?

Here's the latest Naked Security Live video - enjoy (and please share 
with your friends)!

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S3 Ep2: Creepy smartwatches, botnets and Pings of Death - Podcast

Listen to the latest episode of the Naked Security Podcast

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US Department of Justice reignites the Battle to Break Encryption

How strong is too strong?

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Windows "Ping of Death" bug revealed - patch now!

No one has figured out how to run code with this bug yet - but if they 
do, you can bet that someone will turn it into a computer worm.
	
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Creepy covert camera "feature" found in popular smartwatch for kids

This popular smartwatch aimed at kids had a backdoor that received covert 
encrypted commands via SMS.

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Microsoft on the counter-attack! Trickbot malware network takes a hit

The crooks haven't yet been caught and arrested, but their malware 
distribution network has been hit hard.

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