
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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Windows 11 will introduce ‘focus sessions’ to help with remote work distractionsNews 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 browserNews Developers will strip back buggy performance-boosting tech to make room for additional security features
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Microsoft shuts down Windows 365 free trials after significant demandNews The widely anticipated Cloud PC service launched on Monday with configurations available between £17 and £134.60 per user, per month
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Thales to offload railway signalling division to focus on cyber securityNews Hitachi set to acquire the transport business for approximately £1.4 billion
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Google bundles Android and web authentication APIs under one bannerNews Google Identity Services' SDK includes 'Sign in with Google' and 'One Tap' security tokens
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Rishi Sunak: Teams and Zoom are bad for relationship buildingNews The chancellor says young workers should return to the workplace if they want to develop their careers
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What's behind the explosion in zero-day exploits?In-depth Projections show the industry will detect almost three times as many exploits in 2021 as were found last year
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Starlink to establish Isle of Man base station to achieve full UK coverageNews Elon Musk’s satellite internet service will reach remote regions that aren’t yet covered by 5G or full-fibre networks
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Amazon faces £637 million fine over GDPR violationsNews If confirmed, the penalty would be almost 15-times larger than the current record fine
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Intel unveils Xeon W-3300 Ice Lake CPUs for workstationsNews The family of five W-3300 processors support up to 4TB of eight-channel DDR4 memory
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Google coding typo effectively bricks Chrome OS devicesNews A hastily released update prevented users from logging into their machines
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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
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Government sets out investment strategy to spark UK innovationNews The plan will boost annual R&D investment to £22 billion to turn innovation into concrete products and services
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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
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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
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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
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SAP to launch UK cloud service as part of £200 million investmentNews The five-year plan sees SAP launch the UK Data Cloud to support highly sensitive public sector workloads
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