
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 warns of dangerous ‘BazaCall’ call centre ransomware scamNews Human operators are tricking victims into manually downloading malware onto their systems By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Amazon to retire iconic EC2-Classic networkNews Customers will have until 2022 to migrate from the 15-year-old network to VPC By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Data breach costs surge to record high in 2021News The cost in the UK was above the global average, but the US is home to the most expensive data breaches By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Hackers turning to 'exotic' languages for next-gen malware, report warnsNews Coding languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang are allowing malware authors to avoid signature detection and add layers of obfuscation By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Intel's four-year roadmap kicks off with Amazon, Qualcomm chip dealsNews Intel confirms first foundry customers as it sets out a 2025 target for recovery By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Faulty Windows 10 update breaks printing with smart cardsNews Microsoft’s 2021 printing woes continue after several vulnerabilities were found in the Print Spooler component By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Intel warns global chip shortage could last until 2023News Warnings of an acute supply problem in the next quarter come as Intel reports flat revenues for Q2 2021 By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Google coding typo effectively bricks Chrome OS devicesNews A hastily released update prevented users from logging into their machines By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Kaseya mysteriously obtains master REvil decryptor from ‘third party’News The company is now working to restore access to affected customers By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Weekly threat roundup: Windows 11, Cloudflare, Google ChromeNews Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Salesforce's $28bn Slack acquisition: What's next for workplace collaboration?Analysis The CRM giant looks to rewrite the rules of work while expanding cross-business collaboration By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published Analysis
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 16-year-old flaw haunts millions of HP, Xerox and Samsung printersNews The severe vulnerability centres on a printer driver that installs itself on user’s machines, sometimes without their knowledge By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Microsoft cracks down on sophisticated BEC scam campaignNews The firm’s Digital Crime Unit seized a variety of malicious domains targeting Office 365 customers By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Cloudflare flaw could have led to series of supply-chain attacksNews Hackers were able to exploit a path traversal vulnerability to compromise CDNJS and target thousands of sites By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Security researchers uncover more Print Spooler vulnerabilitiesNews Microsoft advises customers to disable the component entirely to prevent attacks following the PrintNightmare debacle By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Recent Microsoft attacks traced to secretive Israeli spyware firmNews Candiru, which trades exclusively with governments, distributed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities patched this week By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Openreach successfully trials next-gen '25G PON' fibre techNews Isolated trials by Openreach and Nokia more than double existing maximum data transfer rates By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Even cutting-edge firms need digital transformationIn-depth Why young and exciting businesses must innovate or die By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published In-depth
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 Weekly threat roundup: SolarWinds, Microsoft, SonicWallNews Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Avast and Norton in talks over multi-billion dollar mergerNews The two competitors could join forces to become the biggest name in the consumer security market By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Microsoft makes second attempt to fix PrintNightmare flawNews The Patch Tuesday fix is included among updates for 117 separate flaws, including four vulnerabilities that are under attack By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 REvil vanishes from the web without a traceNews The mysterious shutdown comes only days after the ransomware group’s massive Kaseya cyber attack hit at least 1,000 businesses By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Ongoing chip shortage hampers PC market growthNews Year-on-year growth slowed from 35.7% in Q1 to 4.6% in Q2 with analysts blaming the semiconductor crisis By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
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 Microsoft warns SolarWinds customers that Serv-U is under attackNews The beleaguered IT firm urges its customers to patch their FTP systems immediately By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published News
