Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 27 2019 17:16:34

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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GitHub joins WebAuthn club

GitHub is the latest company to support WebAuthn, a new standard that
makes logging into online services using a browser more secure.

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Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached

Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received
emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.

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Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher

Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years,
8 months, and reimbursement for victims.

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Weekly review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From Chrome users ignoring password warnings to the jailbreaking iOS
update, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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