Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 26 2019 10:26:15

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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NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance
program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

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Fingerprint glitch in passports swapped left and right hands

And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it's
necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that.

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Microsoft drops password expiration from Windows 10 security

Microsoft has recognised that users don't actually change their
passwords when prompted, they just tweak them. And that doesn't
help anyone.

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Cops can try suspect's fingers on locked iPhones found at crime scene

A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to
force-unlock iPhones with the suspect's fingers.

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