Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Nov 12 2018 11:47:00

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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Headmaster fired over cryptocoin mining on the school's dime

O, that constant whirring noise? And the sky-high electricity bill?
Why, it's those darn air conditioners and heaters!

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Botnet pwns 100,000 routers using ancient security flaw

Researchers have stumbled on another large botnet that's been hijacking
home routers while nobody was paying attention.

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Terrorists told to hijack social media accounts to spread propaganda

Facebook has removed 14 million pieces of content dubbed likely to come
from terrorists, as determined by new machine learning technology

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Microsoft mistake leaves Windows 10 users fuming

Microsoft Windows 10 users were livid late last week after Microsoft
mistakenly told them that their licenses were invalid.

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From the 'Martinelli' WhatsApp hoax to Facebook wanting to give your
name to the weirdo next to you, and everything in between. Catch up
with this and everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's
weekly roundup time!

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