Latest articles by Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Google coding typo effectively bricks Chrome OS devices
News A hastily released update prevented users from logging into their machines
Kaseya mysteriously obtains master REvil decryptor from ‘third party’
News The company is now working to restore access to affected customers
Government sets out investment strategy to spark UK innovation
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
News Isolated trials by Openreach and Nokia more than double existing maximum data transfer rates
Even cutting-edge firms need digital transformation
In-depth Why young and exciting businesses must innovate or die
Weekly threat roundup: SolarWinds, Microsoft, SonicWall
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Avast and Norton in talks over multi-billion dollar merger
News The two competitors could join forces to become the biggest name in the consumer security market
Microsoft makes second attempt to fix PrintNightmare flaw
News The Patch Tuesday fix is included among updates for 117 separate flaws, including four vulnerabilities that are under attack
REvil vanishes from the web without a trace
News The mysterious shutdown comes only days after the ransomware group’s massive Kaseya cyber attack hit at least 1,000 businesses
Ongoing chip shortage hampers PC market growth
News Year-on-year growth slowed from 35.7% in Q1 to 4.6% in Q2 with analysts blaming the semiconductor crisis
Microsoft warns SolarWinds customers that Serv-U is under attack
News The beleaguered IT firm urges its customers to patch their FTP systems immediately
Kaseya patches VSA flaws exploited in REvil ransomware attack
News Three now-patched vulnerabilities centred on credential leakage, cross-site scripting and 2FA bypass
Microsoft acquires threat intelligence startup RiskIQ
News The tech giant's latest security-oriented move follows its MITRE partnership and ReFirm purchase
New Zloader malware technique makes it harder to spot phishing emails
News The novel distribution technique involves sending Word documents that may bypass conventional malware scanning
Visa partners with 50 platforms to support direct crypto payments
News People can buy goods using cryptocurrency-linked Visa cards, with rewards administered like airline miles
