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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What's in your Android's December security update?
Android has released two security bulletins for December containing
mitigations and fixes for 47 vulnerabilities for all devices.
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Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers' laptops to mine cryptocoins
A 10-second delay when customers connected to the "free" Wi-Fi was
harnessed for secret cryptocoin mining
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Mr. Robot season 3 finale: shutdown -r
This season's final instalment of the Mr. Robot security review.
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Mirai botnet authors plead guilty
The authors of the infamous Mirai botnet - used to launch record-breaking
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks last year that knocked major
segments of the internet offline - have pleaded guilty to federal
cybercrime charges.
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Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange is back up after repeated DDoS
It's been hit by two attacks in just over a week, as well as a third in
November. Expect more as currency values continue to skyrocket.
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