Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jun 26 2018 15:35:57

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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Why Bitcoin's about to give up one of its closely guarded secrets

Roll up, roll up, the Bitcoin Core developers are finally set to reveal
the cryptocurrency's alert key.

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Money-eating cash machine RAT gobbles $17,500

RAT may be short for Remote Access Trojan, but the word also refers to
a well-known type of rodent...

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School facial recognition system sparks privacy concerns

A New York school district is hoping to use technology to make its
children safer. But not everyone is happy about it.

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Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people

In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of
lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app
developer emails to the wrong recipients.
	
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Terrible passwords outlawed in Microsoft's new Azure tool

Azure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password
from the company's list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.

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