Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Aug 29 2018 13:03:50

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: It's too tough to find personal data in our huge warehouse

GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and
Facebook's refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.

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Tumblr outlaws creepshots and deepfake porn

The blogging site wants to go back to a simpler time, where, it says,
people were a lot nicer ... and didn't glorify gore and upskirting.

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Google created "unnecessary risk" for Fortnite users, claims Epic boss

Google disclosed the bug "in order to score cheap PR points", said Epic
CEO and founder Tim Sweeney,

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Listening Watch sounds out security idea with websites that listen

Listening Watch, a project based on earlier work by researchers Prakash
Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena, uses the power of sound to log you into
your favourite websites.
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