Subj : Sophos Virus News To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu May 24 2018 17:40:25 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!! *** 2 million stolen identities used to make fake net neutrality comments Most crucially, two of those identities were senators who are now demanding the FCC find out who's behind the bots and the identity theft. *** Office 365 will automatically block Flash and Silverlight If you are one of the small number of Office 365 users who enjoyed embedding Flash, Shockwave or Silverlight content inside files, time is about to run out on your unusual pastime. *** FBI admits to inflating number of crime-related devices it can't crack Investigators can't get into 7,775 devices? Nah, the FBI admits: it's more like 1,200... or 2000... pending an audit, it's not really sure. *** VPNFilter router malware - what to do? [VIDEO] Learn how to deal with the VPNFilter malware currently plaguing 500,000 home routers worldwide. *** VPNFilter - is a malware timebomb lurking on your router? A Cisco paper reports on zombie malware that has apparently infected more than 500,000 home routers. *** Surprise! Student receives $36,000 Google bug bounty for RCE flaw What's the only thing better than a bug bounty reward? A bug bounty reward you weren't expecting. Especially one that's worth $36,337. *** Google in court over "clandestine tracking" of 4.4m iPhone users The search giant could be looking at a giant fine of up to $4.3b. *** Server? What server? Site forgotten for 12 years attracts hacks, fines The University of Greenwich might not have noticed the website but hackers did. *** TeenSafe phone monitoring app leaks teens' iCloud logins in plaintext The "secure" monitoring app is used by over a million parents. *** --- SBBSecho 3.03-Win32 * Origin: ILinkNet: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org (454:1/33) .