Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jul 11 2018 09:10:53

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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Another Linux distro poisoned with malware

Arch Linux user repository altered to host malware, Arch maintainers
say they're "surprised it doesn't happen more often".

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Update Flash (and Adobe Acrobat) now!

Flash: "I've got a critical vulnerability." Acrobat: "hold my beer..."

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Apple and Google questioned by Congress over user tracking

Inquiring lawmakers' minds want to know, for one thing, whether our
mobile phones are actually listening to our conversations.

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Facebook stares down barrel of $660,000 fine over data slurping

The UK privacy regulator has fired a œ0.5M shot across Facebook's
bows in the looks-set-to-go-on-for-ages "Cambridge Analytica" saga

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