Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon May 07 2018 08:08:22

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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Serious Security: The GLitch "row hammering" attack

How the graphics chip in your mobile phone could allow crooks to
deliver malware via your browser - no app download required.

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Breakthrough pushes Quantum Key Distribution beyond 500km

It's getting better, but is it getting better fast enough?

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Tech companies resist government hacking back and backdoors

The US government is coming after cybersecurity with a multi-pronged
pitchfork.

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Half a million pacemakers need a security patch

The devices are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks and at risk of
sudden battery loss.

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Twitter admits to password storage blunder - change your password now!

Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database - but not
in its logs, where it's been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.

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