Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Mar 26 2018 09:55:44

Here is the latest news from the Naked Security Blog at Sophos, providing
news on viruses, hoaxes, scams, etc. You can request a daily summary of
this information, with links to your personal mailbox by going to:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Links to older material are available at the URL noted above.

Note that some of the content in the links provided may be what some may
contain things that some may find vulgar, sexually explicit, profane, or
otherwise offensive. This is to ALERT YOU to messages that may appear on
your system, if it becomes infected; and your computer can become
infected, if you fail to practice "safe hex".

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Police use dead man's fingers to try to unlock his iPhone

In the first known instance of this technique, police tried using a
dead man's fingerprints to get past the protection of Apple's Touch ID.

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Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!

If an application offers authentication security, it’s always a good
idea to turn it on if that isn't the default setting.

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Craigslist personals, some subreddits yanked after passage of FOSTA

Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill that guts Section 230, the law
that protects sites from being held liable for user-posted content.

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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week

From the Facebook fallout and their loss of 50 million users' data to
Siri leaking your private iPhone messages, and more!

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Crooks infiltrate Google Play with malware in QR reading utilities

They got Google's "Play Protect" approval for a number of apps that
were fronts for a barrage of aggressive ads.

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The bug that made free money

What would you do if you found a bug that could create money out of
thin air?

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AMD announces Ryzen patch timeline as disclosure controversy rages

Has an unknown Israeli company called CTS Labs tried to exploit
worries over microprocessor flaws for financial gain?

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Beware the fake Facebook sirens that flirt you into sextortion

Fake hot-babe profiles are working together as "feeders," "bait" and
"hunters" in order to lure men into sex chats that lead to extortion.

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New whistleblower says Facebook turned a blind eye to covert data
harvesting

Sandy Parakilas, formerly responsible for policing data breaches,
said ignorance was bliss and assumed to protect Facebook from
liability.

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