Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 07 2018 10:29:16

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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Flash zero-day exploit spotted - patch now!

If you're among the holdouts still running Flash, you have some
more updating homework to do.

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Kids' VTech tablets vulnerable to eavesdropping hackers

Attackers can boobytrap what should be access to only parent-vetted
sites and can take over the webcam, speakers and microphone.

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Unencrypted medical data leads to 12-state litigation

The Attorneys general of 12 states are suing an e-record provider
who lost 3.9 million personal healthcare records in 2015.

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Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care

Genomics England announced it's sequenced 100K Brits' genomes...
and then had to store them in a military base after multiple
hacking attacks.

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Marriott, Kubernetes and PewDiePie [PODCAST]

Here's the latest Naked Security Podcast - enjoy!

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