Subj : Sophos Virus News To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Mar 20 2019 12:29:12 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!! *** Ep. 024 - Sextortion, malicious adverts and randomness [PODCAST] Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - listen now! *** Google researcher discovers new type of Windows security weakness Microsoft will patch a new Windows security bug discovered by Google Project Zero - despite finding no evidence that it poses a threat. *** Researchers fret over Netflix interactive TV traffic snooping No sooner has Netflix made an interactive TV show than people are already pulling apart its privacy implications. *** Hacked tornado warning systems leave Texans in the dark Add this latest public warning system sabotage to a growing list of fear-and-panic-spreading hacking incidents. *** Firefox 66 now blocks autoplaying audio by default From Firefox 66 for desktop and Android, due in March, media autoplay of video or audio will be blocked by default. *** Elsevier exposes users' emails and passwords online The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users' credentials. *** New scam accuses you of child abuse, offers to remove evidence This scam is both intimidating and disturbing - the crooks are presenting themselves as corrupt CIA officials who will take a bribe. *** Microsoft won't patch Windows registry warning problem A security researcher has found a way to tinker with Windows' core settings while persuading users to accept the changes. *** Gargantuan Gnosticplayers breach swells to 863 million records Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker's total number of records to 863m from 38 websites. *** Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers' chats with the ICO. *** Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission. *** MySpace loses 50 million songs in server migration Everything uploaded prior to 2015 is gone for good, the cobwebby social network finally admitted. *** Child-friendly search engines: How safe is Kiddle? Kiddle and Kidrex are meant to deliver age-appropriate search results, filtering out internet nastiness. But how do they really stack up? *** Home DNA kit company now lets users opt out of FBI data sharing FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it's opened up DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime. *** DARPA is working on an open source, secure e-voting system The US Government is working on an electronic voting system that it hopes will prevent people from tinkering with voting machines at the polls. *** Intel releases patches for code execution vulnerabilities Intel released patches last week, fixing a range of vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code on affected devices. *** G Suite admins can now disallow SMS and voice authentication Users of G Suite may find that the option to authenticate themselves via SMS or voice call has suddenly disappeared. *** WordPress 5.1.1 patches dangerous XSS vulnerability Researchers have offered more detail on a recently patched vulnerability that would allow an attacker to take over a WordPress site. *** Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week From a Citrix breach to John Oliver's FCC anti-robocall campaign, and everything in between - it's weekly roundup time. *** --- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32 * Origin: ILinkNet: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .