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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We all need IT! (Happy holidays from Sophos)
We wrote a song for the heroes who work in IT, and invited the world's
25 most famous singers to perform it. Here's what happened...
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Weird and wacky security stories from 2017 - each in a single tweet!
We had fun squashing our favourite 2017 stories into tweet-sized
versions. We'd love you to join in - try your hand at lossy
compression!
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It's Christmas, you have 9900 seconds of free time, how do you spend it?
9900 seconds of free time at Christmas. What you gonna do?
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Toys: they're getting smarter, but are they secure?
"Smart" toys are getting bigger, pricier and more complex, but are they
secure?
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Apple admits to slowing iPhones, you're not imagining it
Apple has quietly been suppressing the CPU speed of older iPhones to
stop their batteries randomly shutting off
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Washington DC's surveillance cameras hacked; to send spam
Everything and everybody is hackable - and that includes Big Brother
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Data on 123 million US households exposed
If you're a US householder, a humongous trove of your personal data was
available on an easily-accessible file
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Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? - the (not a) security review
Maria takes a break from reviewing Mr Robot and turns her attention to
the ultimate Christmas movie
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