Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon May 21 2018 10:07:16

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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Real-time cellphone location data leaked for all major US carriers

From the carriers to LocationSmart to 3Cinteractive to Securus: there
appears to be a chain pockmarked with lack of authentication and data
lost to hackers.

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Chrome drops "secure" label for HTTPS websites

When it comes to browser security, how important are the address bar
icons and labels that tell users about a site's security status?
For Google at least, they matter a lot.

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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week

From Nest turning up the heat on password reuse and the Red Hat
vulnerability to the Chili's PoS breach, and more!

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