Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 29 2018 11:08:04

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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Facebook and Google accused of manipulating us with "dark patterns"

Privacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design
patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy.

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Linux distro hacked on GitHub, "all code considered compromised"

Gentoo Linux has been hacked, with "all code considered compromised"
on GitHub - fortunately, the master repository is safe.

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The Ticketmaster breach - what happened and what to do

40,000 Ticketmaster customers in the UK and beyond were definitely
affected - for the rest of us, maybe change that password anyway...

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Windows 10 security can be bypassed by Settings page weakness

The file type used by Windows 10's settings page can be used to trick
Windows into running files it's supposed to block.

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