Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 05 2022 13:19:04

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.

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Traffic Light Protocol for cybersecurity responders gets a revamp

Traffic lights make a handy global metaphor for denoting the sensitivity 
of cybersecurity threat data - three colours that everyone knows. 

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GitHub blighted by "researcher" who created thousands of malicious projects

If you spew projects laced with hidden malware into an open source
repository, don't waste your time telling us "no harm done" afterwards.

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S3 Ep94: This sort of crypto (graphy), and the other sort of crypto
(currency) [Audio + Text]

Latest episode - listen now! (Or read if that's what you prefer).

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Post-quantum cryptography -- new algorithm "gone in 60 minutes"

And, THIS is why you don't knit your own home-made encryption algorithms
and hope no one looks at them.

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Cryptocoin "token swapper" Nomad loses $200 million in coding blunder

Transactions were only approved, it seems, if they were initiated by... 
errrrr, by anyone. 

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GnuTLS patches memory mismanagement bug - update now!

GnuTLS may well be the most widespread cryptographic toolkit you've
never heard of. 

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