Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Mar 28 2018 11:46:35

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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Yet another Apple password leak - how to avoid it

Passwords in plaintext - again! Here's Apple's latest macOS password
bug - plus a handy workaround to deal with it.

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Push for legal mandate to unlock phones revived by DOJ

The Feds have been meeting with security researchers who are working
on "a safe enough way" to unlock data on encrypted phones.

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Cambridge Analytica's secret coding sauce allegedly leaked

The exposed data, available free by registering an email address,
shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.

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Cryptocurrency clampdown! Twitter bans ICO ads to combat scammers

Twitter is to ban advertisers from pushing Initial Coin Offerings
(ICOs) or selling tokens on its platform.

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FTC goes after Facebook

Time for Facebook to face the music on its data glad-handling in the
Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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