Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jul 16 2019 13:13:43

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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GandCrab ransomware revisited - is it back under a (R)evil new guise?

Did the GandCrab ransomware gang really 'retire' when they said, or
did they never go away?
	
Bluetooth LE's anti-tracking technology beaten

Researchers have found a way to beat the MAC address randomisation
feature used by Bluetooth to protect users from being tracked.

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$5b privacy fine against Facebook seen as "chump change"

It's 200x greater than the largest fine ever for breaking a promise
to improve privacy practices.

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Ransomware attackers demand $1.8m from US college

The school, located in the Bronx and serving around 8,000 students,
has declined to say whether it will pay up.

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Asian consortium plans blockchain-based mobile ID system

A group of Asian companies want to create a blockchain-based service
to turn your phone into a mobile ID system.

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Alan Turing chosen for the UK's new œ50 note - a cracking result!

In case you were wondering, scientists really can change the world,
and change it for the better, too.

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Instagram bug could have allowed anyone to take over your account

The good news is that Facebook updated Instagram's server-side defences
automatically, so you don't have to do anything to fix this one.

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