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Fin24.com | OPINION | Do your homework: how to assess potential Section 12J investments February 20, 2020
A 12J investment is available to individuals, companies and trusts and is 100% tax deductible in the year of investment. Dino Zuccollo offers some advice on how to determine which one to select for investment.
Fin24.com | Unions underwhelmed by minimum wage adjustment February 20, 2020
Labour unions have expressed disappointment at what they call an insufficient increase to the national minimum wage, saying the adjustments won't be enough to dent poverty levels among the lowest earners, given the increasing cost of living.
Fin24.com | Load shedding to start at 9am - Eskom February 20, 2020
The utility says there is a high probability of power cuts over the weekend.

What DNS encryption means for enterprise threat hunters February 19, 2020
The dawn of the DNS over HTTPS era is putting business security and SOC teams to the challenge The post What DNS encryption means for enterprise threat hunters appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Guest Writer
Sensitive plastic surgery photos exposed online February 18, 2020
Other leaked records include videos, facial and body scans, as well as a range of patients' personal data The post Sensitive plastic surgery photos exposed online appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
Plugin flaw leaves up to 200,000 WordPress sites at risk of attack February 18, 2020
A fix is available, so you may want to make sure that you run the plugin’s latest version The post Plugin flaw leaves up to 200,000 WordPress sites at risk of attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Tomáš Foltýn

AZORult spreads as a fake ProtonVPN installer February 18, 2020
We discovered what appears to be one of AZORult's most unusual campaigns: abusing the ProtonVPN service and dropping malware via fake ProtonVPN installers for Windows.
Dmitry Bestuzhev
DDoS attacks in Q4 2019 February 13, 2020
In the last quarter of the year, the number of both attacks and C&C servers fell sharply, while the number of extra-long attacks (over 400 hours) was the highest ever recorded in the history of our observations.
Oleg Kupreev
KBOT: sometimes they come back February 10, 2020
We recently discovered malware that spread through injecting malicious code into Windows executable files; in other words, a virus. It is the first “living” virus in recent years that we have spotted in the wild. We named it KBOT.
Anna Malina