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Fin24.com | Pressure on consumers persists as retail data underwhelms – economists December 11, 2019
Retail sales for October lifted only slightly by 0.3%, showing that unemployment, low wage growth and indebtedness continued to undermine consumers’ appetite.
Fin24.com | Taste Holdings, former owner of Starbucks, share price plummets 25% December 11, 2019
Taste Holdings' share price fell 25% on Wednesday, as the company expects to make losses for the half-year ended August 31, 2019.
Fin24.com | Eskom: We have 'non-firm' power contracts with Zim and Zambia December 11, 2019
Eskom chief operations officer Jan Oberholzer has said that Eskom has contracts with Zimbabwe and Zambia to supply power - but only when it can.

Data leak exposes 750,000 birth certificate applications December 10, 2019
A variety of sensitive information has been there for the taking due to an unsecured cloud storage container The post Data leak exposes 750,000 birth certificate applications appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
Cybersecurity Trends 2020: Technology is getting smarter – are we? December 10, 2019
With 2019 ending, ESET experts offer their insights into how new innovations will impact our privacy, security and lives in the not so distant future The post Cybersecurity Trends 2020: Technology is getting smarter – are we? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
5 scam prevention tips for seniors December 9, 2019
How can people who didn’t grow up with technology protect themselves against some of the most common types of online fraud? The post 5 scam prevention tips for seniors appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Tomáš Foltýn

Story of the year 2019: Cities under ransomware siege December 11, 2019
Based on publicly available statistics and announcements monitored by Kaspersky experts, 2019 has seen at least 174 municipal organizations targeted by ransomware.
Kaspersky
Windows 0-day exploit CVE-2019-1458 used in Operation WizardOpium December 10, 2019
During our investigation, we discovered that yet another 0-day exploit (CVE-2019-1458) was used in Operation WizardOpium attacks.
AMR
APT review: what the world’s threat actors got up to in 2019 December 4, 2019
What were the most interesting developments in terms of APT activity during the year and what can we learn from them?
David Emm