Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 11:03:34

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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Sophisticated iPhone hacking went unnoticed for over two years

Compromised iPhones were turned into surveillance tools capable of
recording the owner's entire digital life.

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Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

Production systems aren't supposed to have the ADB turned on, but
some set-top boxes do.

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Facebook: "Technical error" let strangers into Messenger Kids chats

It won't happen again, Facebook told senators who wondered how well
it's handling kids' privacy in the chat app abhorred by kids advocates.

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Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy

Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down
so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.

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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome
browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by
luring them to a website.

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