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News24.com | England may follow European allies with tough virus lockdown October 31, 2020
Europe’s battle to check a dramatic surge in coronavirus infections is entering its next phase, with England reportedly set to clamp down on movement for at least a month.
News24.com | Exxon Mobil reports $680m loss on low oil prices October 31, 2020
ExxonMobil reported another large quarterly loss caused by a plunge in oil prices amid the pandemic downturn, that has prompted petroleum giants to slash spending and jobs.
News24.com | Trump TikTok restrictions blocked by judge in win for users October 31, 2020
The US contends that TikTok is a national security threat because its ownership by Beijing-based ByteDance gives the Chinese government access to the personal data of millions of Americans

Week in security with Tony Anscombe October 30, 2020
New ESET Threat Report is out – Are things in IoT security finally changing? – 5 spooky tales of data breaches The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
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Election (in)security: What you may have missed October 30, 2020
As Election Day draws near, here's a snapshot of how this election cycle is faring in the hands of the would-be digitally meddlesome The post Election (in)security: What you may have missed appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Cameron Camp
5 scary data breaches that shook the world October 30, 2020
Just in time for Halloween, we look at the haunting reality of data breaches and highlight five tales that spooked not only the cyber-world The post 5 scary data breaches that shook the world appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida

DDoS attacks in Q3 2020 October 28, 2020
If Q2 2020 surprised us with an unusually high number of DDoS attacks for this period, the Q3 figures point to a normalization. Judging by the number of unique targets, in comparison with last quarter, cybercriminals were more attracted by European, and less by the Asian countries.
Oleg Kupreev
On the trail of the XMRig miner October 22, 2020
As protection methods improve, the developers of miners have had to enhance their own creations, often turning to non-trivial solutions. Several such solutions (previously unseen by us) were detected during our analysis of the open source miner XMRig.
Anton Kuzmenko
Life of Maze ransomware October 21, 2020
In the past year, Maze ransomware has become one of the most notorious malware families threatening businesses and large organizations.
Fedor Sinitsyn

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