Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jun 07 2018 07:49:57

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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Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more

The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we've known
about for over a year.

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Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity

The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet
of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.

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Norman the AI bot reads Reddit, becomes "psychopath"

You say tomato. I say tomahto. "Norman" would likely see a traffic
fatality splattered on the asphalt.

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