Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon May 14 2018 08:37:39

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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Nest turns up the temperature on password reusers

Nest's advice to its users gets a thumbs-up from the Online Trust
Alliance.

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Warehouse full of digital copiers yields truckloads of secrets

Copiers' hard drives aren't typically encrypted or wiped. One result: 
a used copier with 300 people's medical records: just hit "print!"

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Is Google's Duplex AI helpful or plain creepy?

Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company's annual I/O event
to demo an experimental new feature of Google Assistant: Duplex.

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Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it
really?

An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in
several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.

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2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE

What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default
password credentials: "admin" as the name, "admin" for a password.

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Monday review - the hot 18 stories of the week

From the WhatsApp text bomb and iOS 11.4's 7-day USB shutout to the
critical bug in 7-zip, and more!

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When it comes to patches, how urgent is urgent? [Chet Chat Podcast 268]

Chet Chat podcast: Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Greg Iddon
discuss the latest cybersecurity issues.

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