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Fin24.com | Government gets an F for ethics in new report November 21, 2019
Within national government, just 14% of chief audit executives said ethics were important in their organisation, while local municipality scored the lowest of all sectors in terms of compliance, according to the latest Corporate Governance Index.
Fin24.com | Gupta-linked Regiments pays Transnet pension fund back R530m November 21, 2019
A Transnet pension fund has been paid a settlement amount of approximately from Gupta-linked Regiments, the fund said in a statement issued on Thursday afternoon.
Fin24.com | SARB leaves interest rate unchanged, downgrades GDP growth projection November 21, 2019
Lesetja Kganyago has again lowered the central bank's projection for SA's economic growth rate for 2019, this time to just 0.5%.

Registers as “Default Print Monitor”, but is a malicious downloader. Meet DePriMon November 21, 2019
ESET researchers have discovered a new downloader with a novel, not previously seen in the wild installation technique The post Registers as “Default Print Monitor”, but is a malicious downloader. Meet DePriMon appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
ESET Research
What does it take to attract top cybersecurity talent? November 20, 2019
From professional backgrounds to competitive salaries – a study delves into what it takes to build strong cybersecurity teams The post What does it take to attract top cybersecurity talent? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Amer Owaida
Mispadu: Advertisement for a discounted Unhappy Meal November 19, 2019
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans The post Mispadu: Advertisement for a discounted Unhappy Meal appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
ESET Research

The cybercrime ecosystem: attacking blogs November 21, 2019
It is very common to see cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in blogging software such as WordPress and Joomla! for injecting their malicious code. In my research, I decided to investigate this further and see what the current threat landscape looks like by researching the most visited blogs in Sweden.
David Jacoby
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2019. Advanced threat predictions for 2020 November 20, 2019
This is what we think might happen in the coming months, based on the knowledge of experts in this field and our observation of APT attacks – since APT threat actors have historically been the center of innovation.
GReAT
DDoS attacks in Q3 2019 November 11, 2019
Statistically, Q3 2019 differs little from Q2. In terms of geographical distribution of attacks and targets, we saw a continuation of the now familiar trend of unexpected guests appearing, only to drop out the next quarter.
Oleg Kupreev