Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 30 2018 10:34:36

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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Huge Marriott breach puts 500 million victims at risk

The Marriott hotel empire's Starwood guest reservation database has
been subject to unauthorised access since 2014.

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Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged

The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a
vast ad-fraud scheme.

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Prisoners allegedly posed as underage girls in $560K sextortion scam

They allegedly victimized 442 military men by sending nude photos and
then calling, pretending to be irate fathers or police.

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57m Americans' details leaked online by another misconfigured server

Misconfigured Elasticsearch servers spilled personal details on 57
million Americans, said reports this week.

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Driver loses his car to hackers. TWICE.

He slapped a tracker on the new one and installed CCTV... which did a
fine job of recording the thieves' 90-second-long relay attack.

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