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Alimardani says that it appears mobile data services are patchy, and for many people virtual private networks, which can be used to avoid censorship, have stopped working. This means it has been difficult to reach people in the country and potentially for information to get out, Alimardani says. “Some family that left Tehran today were offline and disconnected from the internet and finally found some connectivity when they were 200 kilometers outside of Tehran in another province,” Alimardani explains. “My connections are primarily with people using home broadband Wi-Fi, but even that has been unstable.”Over the last decade, countries have…
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Amazon Web Services has announced new and improved security features at its annual AWS re:Inforce cloud security conference. The company has also introduced features aimed at speeding up backup recovery, and has announced the completion of its push to protect all AWS root users’s accounts with multi-factor authentication. AWS Shield network security director (Preview) AWS Shield, the managed DDoS protection service that protects applications running on AWS, is gaining the ability to pinpoint network issues that could be exploited by attackers. AWS Shield network security director: Performs a network analysis of a customers’ AWS resources and identifies how they are…
Miami, Florida, June 18th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Halo Security’s Attack Surface Management Platform Honored for Exceptional Innovation and Successful Deployment Through The Channel Halo Security today announced that its attack surface management solution has been named a 2025 MSP Today Product of the Year Award winner by TMC, a leading global media company recognized for building communities in technology and business through live events and digital marketing platforms. The MSP Today Product of the Year Award honors standout products and services that are reshaping the managed services landscape—delivered through the Channel and purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of end users.…
We use our smartphones for everything under the sun, from work-related communication to online shopping, banking transactions, and social media. For this reason, our phones store a lot of personal data, including contacts, account details, and bank account logins. High online usage also makes your devices vulnerable to viruses, a type of malware that replicate themselves and spread throughout the entire system. They can affect your phone’s performance or, worse, compromise your sensitive information so that hackers can benefit monetarily. In this article, we will give you a rundown of viruses that can infect your phone and how you can…
As we continue to evolve the field of AI, a new branch that has been accelerating recently is Agentic AI. Multiple definitions are circulating, but essentially, Agentic AI involves one or more AI systems working together to accomplish a task using tools in an unsupervised fashion. A basic example of this is tasking an AI Agent with finding entertainment events I could attend during summer and emailing the options to my family. Agentic AI requires a few building blocks, and while there are many variants and technical opinions on how to build, the basic implementation typically includes a Reasoning LLM…
Miami, Florida, June 18th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Halo Security’s Attack Surface Management Platform Honored for Exceptional Innovation and Successful Deployment Through The Channel Halo Security today announced that its attack surface management solution has been named a 2025 MSP Today Product of the Year Award winner by TMC, a leading global media company recognized for building communities in technology and business through live events and digital marketing platforms. The MSP Today Product of the Year Award honors standout products and services that are reshaping the managed services landscape—delivered through the Channel and purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of end users.…
Watch out, Veeam fixed a new critical bug in Backup & Replication product Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2025 Veeam addressed a new critical flaw in Backup & Replication product that could potentially result in remote code execution. Veeam has rolled out security patches to address a critical security vulnerability, tracked CVE-2025-23121 (CVSS score of 9.9) in its Backup & Replication solution that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions. “A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user.” reads the advisory published by the vendor. The vulnerability impacts Backup…
Date: May 27, 2025Time: 9:30 AM EDT | 8:30 AM CDT | 7:00 PM ISTTopic: From Reactive to Resilient: Rethinking Strategic Cybersecurity Planning Watch Now Abstract:The number of critical vulnerabilities increased by 38% in 2024 (Gamblin, 2025), and the trend doesn’t appear likely to reverse any time soon. Security has an interesting problem when it comes to planning. On the one hand, cybersecurity professionals are supposed to look into the future and predict what the organization is going to be exposed to from a threat perspective, and yet, in practice, almost everything they do in the day-to-day operations of security…