Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Apr 16 2018 08:24:29

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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Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default - why this
matters

Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak, but its the
first version of the browser to do this without the user having to
consciously turn it on.

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Facial recognition cameras on lamp posts to be tested in Singapore

The Singapore government wants to put one on top of all 110,000 lamp
posts throughout the country, to help identity all who pass by.

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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week

From checking if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge
Analytica and the 65 vulnerabilities fixed in April's Patch Tuesday
to Facebook's 'shadow profiles', and more!

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The ransomware that says, "I don't want money" - play a violent game
instead!

Ransomware that lets you play to pay...

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Instagram bends to GDPR - a "download everything" tool is coming

The tool will let you get at your photos, videos and messages

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Interview: Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open Privacy
Research Society

An interview with Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open
Privacy Research Society, a new privacy advocacy and research
non-profit based in Vancouver, Canada.

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Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia's Reddit penetration

How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn't buy it)

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Facebook shines a little light on "shadow profiles"

Shadow... what now?

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