Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jul 04 2018 09:14:50

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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Want to beat facial recognition? Join the Insane Clown Posse

The black and white clown makeup worn by the rap duo and their fans
fools facial recognition.

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Elderly scam victims are too embarrassed to speak up

Financial talk itself is taboo. Admitting to getting fleeced and
losing all your savings? That qualifies as super taboo, a new report
says.

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Samsung phones sending photos to contacts without permission

At least two Samsung smartphone models have reportedly spontaneously
started sending photographs to contacts without being asked to do so.

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Facebook accidentally unblocks people

It's fixed now, thankfully: be it airheads who post baloney or stalkers,
all blocked users deserve to STAY blocked.

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Someone else is reading your Gmails

Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning
your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real
people reading them.

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Tool scrubs hidden tracking data from printed documents

Just because a document isn't digital doesn't mean it doesn't contain
metadata. Printed documents often have their own hidden details, and
now German researchers have developed tools to help you scrub them
clean.

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Immigrant identity thief and ICE lawyer gets four years

A former high-ranking lawyer at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
is going to jail for four years after stealing the identities of US
immigrants.

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Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data

What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were
all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.

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Typeform data breach hits thousands of survey accounts

Survey company Typeform has admitted suffering a breach caused by
attackers downloading a "partial backup" of its customer data.

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Fake Bitcoin exchange traps drug dealers on the dark web

You never know who you'll meet on the dark web. In the case of one
money laundering operation, it turned out to be Homeland Security
agents.

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