
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.
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Microsoft Exchange Server flaw lets attackers misconfigure mailboxes
News Microsoft has patched the ProxyToken vulnerability before any evidence of exploitation has emerged
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TSMC plots up to 20% price hike amid global chip crisis
News The price increases could have repercussions on the global electronics market
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Apple concedes ground to developers with $100 million settlement
News The tech giant is now allowing developers to promote purchase options outside of iOS apps
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Weekly threat roundup: Ethereum, Razer mice, Cisco
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
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Microsoft product chief Panos Panay joins executive leadership team
News The Microsoft veteran has been a key player in the development of the Surface range and Windows 11
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UK reveals post-Brexit data reforms alongside flurry of international agreements
News The US, Australia, and South Korea are among the countries the government is prioritising for multi-billion-pound adequacy agreements
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Zoom charts course for ‘hybrid’ office return
News The company briefly opened its Sydney offices but reversed course as COVID-19 remerged in the area
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Widely-used WhatsApp mod stuffed with malware
News FMWhatsApp is embedded with the Triada Trojan which tracks device information and intercepts texts
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Intel and Qualcomm awarded chipmaking deal with US defence agencies
News The US government wants to create a healthy stream of 7nm chips and smaller manufactured on-shore
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Samsung invests £150 billion to become global chipmaking leader
News The three-year plan will also see the firm make 40,000 hires
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Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes 38 million records
News Sensitive data including contact tracing, COVID vaccine status as well as names and email addresses have been leaked
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Nvidia-ARM deal in danger as CMA raises ‘serious’ competition concerns
News The regulator is worried the joint entity will restrict access of Nvidia’s rivals to Arm’s IP
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Intel’s ‘Thread Director’ will boost CPU performance on Windows 11
News This technology will be embedded in the next generation of 10nm hybrid Alder Lake desktop processors
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Facebook unveils VR remote working experience, Horizon Workrooms
News Using the Oculus Quest 2, workers can beam their own Sims-style avatar into the ‘metaverse’
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Weekly threat roundup: Blackberry QNX, Cisco VPNs, Fortinet firewalls
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
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LG hails 6G breakthrough with successful outdoor test
News Tech firm claims it has overcome a major hurdle to viable long-range 6G connections
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Qualcomm unveils first 5G and AI-compatible drone platform
News The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform aims to bring together several complex technologies into a single system
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GitHub Discussions is now generally available
News The inclusion of Reddit-like features such as upvoting and discussion pinning aims to improve the user experience
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MoD launches callout for tech to plug cyber security holes
News The £300,000 call for submissions aims to address a landscape that’s “full of legacy systems vulnerable to cyber attack”
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Intel unveils Arc brand with new GPUs arriving in 2022
News The first hardware generation, nicknamed Alchemist, will be based on the Xe microarchitecture
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Cisco acquires Israeli application monitoring startup Epsagon
News Technology and expertise from the cloud monitoring startup will feed into Cisco’s full-stack observability strategy
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Windows 11 will introduce ‘focus sessions’ to help with remote work distractions
News This tool pairs tasks on a to-do list with Spotify playlists to allow workers to concentrate while working from home or in the office
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Microsoft tests experimental “Super Duper Secure Mode” for Edge browser
News Developers will strip back buggy performance-boosting tech to make room for additional security features
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Thales to offload railway signalling division to focus on cyber security
News Hitachi set to acquire the transport business for approximately £1.4 billion
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