Jul 16, 2020
Brazilian cybercriminals, long regarded as some of the most creative malware creators, have begun to take their original malicious programs outside the country. According to Kaspersky researchers, four advanced banking families – Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and...
Jul 16, 2020
South Africa’s government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus, and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in Covid-19 cases. By...
Jul 16, 2020
Melinda Gates has launched a paper exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has exploited pre-existing inequalities and drastically impacted women’s lives and livelihoods. In the paper, titled “The Pandemic’s Toll on Women and Girls,” Gates makes...
Jul 15, 2020
The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) for June 2020 showed the biggest one-month bounce-back on record, providing the first strongest indication of an economic recovery since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. However, the organisation cautions that...
Jul 15, 2020
Hardware security specialists with cyber security provider F-Secure have published a report detailing their investigation into a pair of counterfeit network switches. The investigation, which concluded that the counterfeits were designed to bypass processes that...
Jul 15, 2020
Researchers at the University of Regensburg in Germany are extending their exploration of the origins of the universe boosted by a new Fujitsu supercomputer, the PrimeHPC FX700 underpinned by the new Arm-based Fujitsu A64FX processor. The university’s QPace4...