Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Sep 13 2018 21:46:59

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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Veeam leaves MongoDB database wide open, exposes 445m records

The data-management firm's customer database held names, email
addresses, some IP addresses and more: a wealth of ammo for phishers.

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Street gang members indicted for stealing POS terminals

....and using the credit card terminals to allegedly issue themselves
fraudulent returns and to steal taxpayer IDs and bank info.

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California bill regulates IoT for first time in US

California looks set to regulate IoT devices, becoming the first US
state to do so and beating the Federal Government to the post.

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Update now! Microsoft's September 2018 Patch Tuesday is here

September's Patch Tuesday is upon Windows users - 61 CVEs, 17 flaws
rated as critical, a zero-day and a flaw affecting Adobe Flash Player.

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Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet

Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that
infested the company's TechNet support domain.

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Beware: WhatsApp scammers target children with "Olivia" porn message

"I can send a picture where all of us are together," says "Olivia,"
before sending a porn URL. Tell kids not to click!

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Younger Facebook users 4 times more likely to delete app, study shows

They also appear to be more privacy-wary, with 64% changing their
settings, comparing to just a third of older users.

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Vizio to send class notices through the TVs that spied on viewers

Millions of smart TVs may soon be forced to admit to viewers that they
spied on them, and then sold their data.

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Drive away a Tesla today (even if it isn't yours)

Raspberry Pi's processing power versus Tesla's Model X cryptography -
victory for the little guy!

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