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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Phishing embraces HTTPS, hoping you'll "check for the padlock"
HTTPS is one of security's great love affairs, but it's not all roses.
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Google AI teaches itself "superhuman" chess skills in four hours
Move aside, ugly, giant bags of mostly water, the computers are teaching
themselves now
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Uber disguised $100,000 hacker payoff as bug bounty, claims Reuters
Can a hacker's extortion demand ever be paid off as though it were a bug bounty?
Or is that a step too far?
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Apple fills the KRACK on iPhones - at last
KRACK is a Wi-Fi encryption bug - Apple patched it quickly, but only for
iPhone 7 and later. Now everyone else gets a patch, too...
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