A 145% surcharge on goods from China will further stress IT budgets, which were already expected to increase. Everything from a simple home WiFi router to enterprise firewalls, network equipment, and even cloud services will be affected. In 2019, restrictions on a single company, Huawei, disrupted the deployment of 5G infrastructure and forced companies to look for alternative vendors. This extended timelines by up to 12 months and drove up costs. Security experts warn that a 145% tariff on...

Like most Americans, I have a TP-Link router at home and am contemplating what to do with it. The company is under scrutiny for potential backdoors, and authorities are considering it as the next potential target for a ban. Is replacing the TP-Link router really the only option? The short answer is yes, according to the three cyber pros Cybernews talked to. I thought I could add a firewall or install custom firmware to limit exposure. All the other alternatives are worse security-wise. Even...

Russia is rapidly isolating its internet-connected infrastructure from the outside world. In less than a half year, over two-thirds of previously discoverable services and devices have vanished behind the ‘Great Firewall.’ Today, if you scanned and counted public-facing Russian servers and other devices, the country would appear smaller than Romania or Sweden, states with 5-10 times smaller populations. Before October 15th, 2024, Russia had around 920,000 public internet-facing devices and...