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News24.com | Oil drops after warnings on US economy and global crude demand September 24, 2020
After trading above $43 a barrel in late August, oil has lurched lower this month amid signs a resurgence in the coronavirus could lead to more lockdown measures.
News24.com | WATCH | Digital banking takes off amid Nigeria's pandemic September 24, 2020
With lockdown measures exacerbating queues at banks and limiting the amount of money people can withdraw, more Nigerians are reportedly turning to digital banking.
News24.com | The Foschini Group gets greenlight to acquire Jet Stores September 23, 2020
Mr Price was concerned lower rentals that Jet managed to negotiate and R800 million worth of stock would give The Foschini Group an unfair advantage.

179 arrested in massive dark web bust September 23, 2020
The sting is said to be the US Government’s largest operation targeting crime in the internet’s seedy underbelly The post 179 arrested in massive dark web bust appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
New tool helps companies assess why employees click on phishing emails September 22, 2020
NIST’s tool can help organizations improve the testing of their employees’ phish-spotting prowess The post New tool helps companies assess why employees click on phishing emails appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
Mozilla fixes flaw that let attackers hijack Firefox for Android via Wi‑Fi September 21, 2020
Attackers could have exploited the flaw to steal victims’ login credentials or install malware on their devices The post Mozilla fixes flaw that let attackers hijack Firefox for Android via Wi‑Fi appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida

Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. H1 2020 highlights September 24, 2020
Beginning in H2 2019 we have observed a tendency for decreases in the percentages of attacked computers, both in the ICS and in the corporate and personal environments. The internet, removable media and email continue to be the main sources of threats in the ICS environment.
Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT
Looking for sophisticated malware in IoT devices September 23, 2020
Let’s talk about the structure of the firmware of an IoT device in order to get a better understanding of the different components.
Noushin Shabab
An overview of targeted attacks and APTs on Linux September 10, 2020
The Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky publishes regular summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, based on the threat intelligence research discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. In this report, we focus on the targeting of Linux resources by APT threat actors.
GReAT

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