Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Feb 04 2019 10:18:37

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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Security weaknesses in 5G, 4G and 3G could expose users' locations

Researchers have discovered security holes in 5G, 4G and 3G telephony
protocols, which can expose a user's location.

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Chrome's hidden lookalike detection feature battles URL imposters

Chrome now checks for misspellings of popular URLs and will display a
link to the site that it thinks the user might have wanted to visit.

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FBI burrowing into North Korea's big bad botnet

The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing
it up from the inside.

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Selling fake likes and follows is illegal, rules New York

A groundbreaking settlement in New York finds that selling fake likes
and followers is illegal.

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Monday review - the hot 28 stories of the week

From the DNS outage that deleted users' Azure data to the Nest security
cam hijacker, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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