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News24.com | ANC's post-pandemic plan 'a glimmer of hope' for battered junior miners July 13, 2020
The document proposes incentivising investment in mining exploration.
News24.com | OPINION | Emerging markets will pay the price for central bank policies in the West July 13, 2020
Judging by the performance of emerging markets, you’d hardly know the world was suffering from a deadly pandemic - but that doesn't tell the full story, says Mihir Sharma.
News24.com | Guardrisk to appeal Covid-19 claims ruling that ordered it to pay up July 13, 2020
Guardrisk says it will appeal a High Court ruling that ordered it to pay out business interruption claims from Cape Town restaurant Café Chameleon.

Week in security with Tony Anscombe July 10, 2020
Up close with the Evilnum group and its eponymous malware – A severe flaw in networking gear – Router firmware under the microscope The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
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Popular home routers plagued by critical security flaws July 9, 2020
A study paints a dim picture of router security, as none of the 127 devices tested was free of severe vulnerabilities The post Popular home routers plagued by critical security flaws appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Tomáš Foltýn
Billions of stolen passwords for sale on the dark web July 9, 2020
While logins to music and video streaming services sell for less than ten dollars each, domain admin access is being offered for US$120,000 The post Billions of stolen passwords for sale on the dark web appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida

Redirect auction July 8, 2020
We've already looked at links under old YouTube videos or in Wikipedia articles which at some point turned bad and began pointing to partner program pages, phishing sites, or even malware. It was as if the attackers were purposely buying up domains, but such a scenario always seemed to us too complicated.
Dmitry Kondratyev
Pig in a poke: smartphone adware July 6, 2020
Our support team continues to receive more and more requests from users complaining about intrusive ads on their smartphones from unknown sources.
Igor Golovin
Magnitude exploit kit – evolution June 24, 2020
Exploit kits still play a role in today’s threat landscape and continue to evolve. For this blogpost I studied and analyzed the evolution of one of the most sophisticated exploit kits out there – Magnitude EK – for a whole year.
Boris Larin

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