Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue May 01 2018 13:55:45

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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Google Maps open redirect flaw abused by scammers

A bug in Google Maps has turned it into a better URL shortener for
crooks than goo.gl

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Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica's Aleksandr Kogan

The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook
Twitter is.

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Surveillance watchdog learns that old domains never die

Keep your old domains, forever.

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The hacker who broke into jail and had to stay for 7 years

Konrads Voits, who hacked his way into the county jail's network to
try and get his friend early release, is sentenced to 7 years in jail.

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"SamSam" ransomware - a mean old dog with a nasty new trick

Ransomware is still about "pay up or your files get the chop." But the
crooks are learning how to squeeze you for larger sums of money...

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