Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Aug 16 2018 08:57:39

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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Australians who won't unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail

The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at
suspected criminals' data. If they can't, it would jail people for up
to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.

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Sacramento admits to tracking welfare recipients' license plates

For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated
license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.

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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison

The family of "Dread Pirate Roberts" got him an account and is typing in,
word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump's clemency.

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Bogus journals being used to publish fake science

What's worse than fake news? Fake science - published in legitimate
looking journals.

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Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off

Shock! It appears Google can track the location of anyone using some of
its apps on Android or iPhone even when they've told it not to.

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Beware! "Porn" scam uses your phone number to blackmail you

Last month the crooks were throwing old passwords into their scams to
make you sit up and take notice. Now it's phone numbers.

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