Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a writer and editor that specialises in public sector, cyber security, and cloud computing. He first joined ITPro as a staff writer in April 2018 and eventually became its Features Editor. Although a regular contributor to other tech sites in the past, these days you will find Keumars on LiveScience, where he runs its Technology section.
Latest articles by Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Starlink to establish Isle of Man base station to achieve full UK coverage
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Elon Musk’s satellite internet service will reach remote regions that aren’t yet covered by 5G or full-fibre networks
Amazon faces £637 million fine over GDPR violations
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News If confirmed, the penalty would be almost 15-times larger than the current record fine
Intel unveils Xeon W-3300 Ice Lake CPUs for workstations
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The family of five W-3300 processors support up to 4TB of eight-channel DDR4 memory
Microsoft warns of dangerous ‘BazaCall’ call centre ransomware scam
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Human operators are tricking victims into manually downloading malware onto their systems
Amazon to retire iconic EC2-Classic network
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Customers will have until 2022 to migrate from the 15-year-old network to VPC
Data breach costs surge to record high in 2021
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The cost in the UK was above the global average, but the US is home to the most expensive data breaches
Hackers turning to 'exotic' languages for next-gen malware, report warns
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Coding languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang are allowing malware authors to avoid signature detection and add layers of obfuscation
Intel's four-year roadmap kicks off with Amazon, Qualcomm chip deals
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Intel confirms first foundry customers as it sets out a 2025 target for recovery
Faulty Windows 10 update breaks printing with smart cards
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Microsoft’s 2021 printing woes continue after several vulnerabilities were found in the Print Spooler component
Intel warns global chip shortage could last until 2023
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Warnings of an acute supply problem in the next quarter come as Intel reports flat revenues for Q2 2021
What is two-factor authentication?
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet last updated
In-depth Passwords aren't secure; it's time to add multi-factor authentication
Google coding typo effectively bricks Chrome OS devices
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News A hastily released update prevented users from logging into their machines
Kaseya mysteriously obtains master REvil decryptor from ‘third party’
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The company is now working to restore access to affected customers
Government sets out investment strategy to spark UK innovation
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The plan will boost annual R&D investment to £22 billion to turn innovation into concrete products and services
Weekly threat roundup: Windows 11, Cloudflare, Google Chrome
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Salesforce's $28bn Slack acquisition: What's next for workplace collaboration?
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Analysis The CRM giant looks to rewrite the rules of work while expanding cross-business collaboration
16-year-old flaw haunts millions of HP, Xerox and Samsung printers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The severe vulnerability centres on a printer driver that installs itself on user’s machines, sometimes without their knowledge
SAP to launch UK cloud service as part of £200 million investment
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The five-year plan sees SAP launch the UK Data Cloud to support highly sensitive public sector workloads
Microsoft cracks down on sophisticated BEC scam campaign
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The firm’s Digital Crime Unit seized a variety of malicious domains targeting Office 365 customers
Cloudflare flaw could have led to series of supply-chain attacks
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Hackers were able to exploit a path traversal vulnerability to compromise CDNJS and target thousands of sites
Security researchers uncover more Print Spooler vulnerabilities
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Microsoft advises customers to disable the component entirely to prevent attacks following the PrintNightmare debacle
Recent Microsoft attacks traced to secretive Israeli spyware firm
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Candiru, which trades exclusively with governments, distributed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities patched this week
Openreach successfully trials next-gen '25G PON' fibre tech
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Isolated trials by Openreach and Nokia more than double existing maximum data transfer rates