Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jun 06 2018 13:12:36

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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The Zip Slip vulnerability - what you need to know

Thousands of projects affected by painful programming lapse

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Apple says no to Facebook's tracking

Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across
multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding
content such as "like" buttons.

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Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI

If AI is increasingly able to recognize and classify faces, then the
only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI
to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be
possible.

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Microsoft faces wrath of developers after GitHub acquisition

Microsoft's come a long way in the past 10 years, since former chief
Steve Ballmer called open-source a malignant cancer.

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We won! Naked Security awarded Best Security Video Blog

In a glittering (well, we were in jeans, in a pub) awards ceremony we
won Best Security Video Blog at the European Security Blogger Awards.

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Bizarre Chrome and Firefox flaw exposed Facebook details

Researchers have discovered a weakness in the way Chrome and Firefox
interact with CSS3 that could have caused them to leak usernames,
profile pictures and likes from sites such as Facebook.

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Facebook defends practice of giving deep data access to device makers

They're not "outsiders," Facebook says. They're part of Facebook,
helping to make Facebook play nicely with their devices.

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Google says fix for "weird" 1975 text message bug is on the way

As of Monday, you could still see recent texts by searching on the
string "the1975..com".

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