Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Apr 05 2018 15:50:08

Here is the latest news from the Naked Security Blog at Sophos, providing
news on viruses, hoaxes, scams, etc. You can request a daily summary of
this information, with links to your personal mailbox by going to:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Links to older material are available at the URL noted above.

Note that some of the content in the links provided may be what some may
contain things that some may find vulgar, sexually explicit, profane, or
otherwise offensive. This is to ALERT YOU to messages that may appear on
your system, if it becomes infected; and your computer can become
infected, if you fail to practice "safe hex".

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Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots

If passed, the bill would give platforms 72 hours to investigate reports
of bots seeking to mislead Californians and to remove or disclose them.

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Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure

On April Fools' Day, Cloudflare launched a new public DNS (Domain Name
System) service using the memorable network address 1.1.1.1.

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YouTube employee's Twitter account hijacked during shooting

In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim
Lavrusik's account was hijacked.

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Free Virgin Atlantic tickets? No, it's a WhatsApp scam

Two free tickets for every family? It sounds great! It has to be a scam.

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Get into RSA for free, hear Sophos experts talk, play our VR game

Want a free pass to RSA conference in San Francisco? Look no further!

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Hand over your social media history before you enter the US

The US Government will request 5 years' worth of social media details
for 14 million visa applicants, if this proposal goes into effect.

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Grindr was sharing HIV status of users, but now it's not

Grindr has found itself with the uncomfortable job of explaining why it
has quietly been sharing the HIV status of its users with third parties.

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Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted

Facebook's blamed a bug. Let's wait and see what other critters crawl
out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!

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Panera Bread customer records exposed via leaky database - dough!

There's a war of words going on at the moment between veteran cybercrime
reporter Brian Krebs and US bakery chain Panera Bread.

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5 million credit cards exposed in Saks and Lord & Taylor data breach

A Dark Web monitoring company announced the breach via Twitter on April
Fool's Day, but it wasn't a joke.

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