Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Jan 28 2019 10:34:21

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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How my Instagram account got hacked

After years of embarrassment, I'm finally ready to admit how and why
my Instagram account got hacked.

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How to protect yourself this Data Privacy Day

Today is Data Privacy Day. We asked around at Sophos for some tips
from people that live security day in and day out.

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BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row

An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it
last week.

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Twitter scammers jump in on real-time complaints to companies

"Hi there," said the polite (and fake) help desk, leading to a
back-and-forth between a lying scammer and a lying security analyst.

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Even Microsoft can't escape "reply all" email storms

Of all the calamities that befall email users, few are more dreaded than
the "reply all" storm.

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YouTube subscribers getting spammed by celebrity imposters

YouTube personality Philip DeFranco warned that the messages pretending
to be from him and other top influencers are scams.

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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week

From the US gov's emergency directive to the 10 Year Challenge, and
everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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