Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 10:47:55

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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Linux experts are crap at passwords!

Last week's megastory was the Gentoo breach that saw an entire online
Linux code repository hacked - now we know how it happened...

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Chrome and Firefox pull history-stealing browser extension

An extension used by about two million people has been pulled by Chrome
and Firefox after it was found exfiltrating browsing data.

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Employee allegedly stole government spyware and hid it under his bed

Spyware that's supposed to be sold to governments was stolen and hidden
under a mattress while it was offered for sale on the dark web.

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The Pirate Bay is plundering your CPU for cryptocash, again

The Pirate Bay seems to have returned to mining cryptocurrency in its
visitors' browsers without asking.

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Are cybercrooks watching you copy and paste? [VIDEO]

The clipboard is an obvious "place of interest" 'for cybercrooks - it's
where you copy text that's hard to type, such as passwords!

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SIM card in bird's GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill

Researchers assumed the bird was dead when its GPS signal stopped moving.
A few weeks later the team received a giant phone bill.

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