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Arab News
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Britain's Queen Camilla celebrates anniversary with Italian pizza and ice cream
ROME: Italians offered pizza and ice cream to Britain's Queen Camilla to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of her wedding to King Charles during a state visit to Italy on Wednesday. Camilla and Charles walked to the renowned Giolitti cafe in central Rome where the queen sampled an ice cream from a paper cup after the king had made a historic speech to the nearby Italian parliament. Camilla had earlier been presented with a boxed pizza after attending an event at a school in Rome. More formal dining will be on the agenda on Wednesday evening when Italian President Sergio Mattarella hosts a banquet for the royal couple at the Quirinale Palace. Charles told parliament that Britain had been heavily influenced by Italian cooking. 'I can only hope you will forgive us for occasionally corrupting your wonderful cuisine. We do so with the greatest possible affection,' he said, to loud laughter.
Mid East Info
27-03-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
ESET Launches Ransomware Remediation and AI Advisor Updates at ESET World 2025 - Middle East Business News and Information
ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today released new updates for the ESET PROTECT Platform, including Ransomware Remediation, a new way to prevent ransomware encryption from causing long-term business disruption, as well as new functionalities for ESET Cloud Office Security and the ESET AI Advisor. These new cybersecurity features were launched at ESET World 2025, which took place in Las Vegas from March 24 to 26, 2025, at the ARIA Resort & Casino. As ransomware attacks increase in sophistication, threat actors seek to undermine nearly all areas of business security and stability. One well-known and -used attack is encryption, which prevents you from accessing your device and the data stored on it. Causing costly process disruption, and ultimately forcing firms to pay to decrypt their systems, threat actors often target system backups, such as Volume Shadow Copy, by immediately deleting or corrupting them. This makes recovery nearly impossible and drives up remediation costs. Building on ESET LiveSense, ESET's next-gen Ransomware Remediation feature works in concert with Ransomware Shield to immediately create backups until the system confirms whether the suspicious activity is malicious or benign. If malicious, Ransomware Shield will kill the process and roll back the files from the newly created secure backups. If benign, the backups created can be discarded. Unlike other solutions, Ransomware Remediation has its own protected storage section on the drive, where files cannot be modified, corrupted, or deleted by the attacker. This differentiator actively solves one of the most common failings of regular backups during a ransomware attack. As a free addition for customers signed up for the ESET PROTECT Advanced tier and above, Ransomware Remediation is available for Windows-based systems. 'ESET has a history of innovation in mitigating ransomware, both in the context of our endpoint security platform, our service offerings such as ESET MDR, and our part in the 'No More Ransom' initiative, which partners with law enforcement and IT Security companies to disrupt cybercriminal businesses with ransomware connections,' said Michal Jankech, Vice President, Enterprise & SMB/MSP at ESET. 'ESET's Ransomware Remediation delivers comprehensive Ransomware defense, from encryption, theft and data holding. Easy to use, ESET's Ransomware Remediation offers businesses peace of mind as we help them in the fight against ransomware.' Email Security and AI Advisor Updates ESET has added anti-spoofing and homoglyph protection to its ESET Cloud Office Security module, preventing attackers from pretending to be trusted sources while also identifying their efforts to disguise malicious domains or URLs through letter substitution from other alphabets. Moreover, ESET Cloud Office Security now also has an email clawback feature, enabling swift recall and quarantine of any delivered emails deemed suspicious. New dashboards are visually enhanced and include fully customizable tabs and components that fit a user's specific needs. ESET has also expanded the availability of AI Advisor to its EDR/XDR customers, including those with ESET PROTECT Enterprise, ESET PROTECT Elite, and ESET PROTECT MDR subscriptions – while making performance updates. By investing in AI, businesses are able to access SOC-level advisory, enabling enhanced security analyst workflows. Unlike other vendor offerings and typical generative AI assistants that focus on soft features like administration or device management, ESET AI Advisor seamlessly integrates into the day-to-day operations of security analysts. This is a gamechanger for companies with limited IT resources that want to utilize the advantages of advanced XDR solutions and threat intelligence feeds. For more information about the ESET LiveSense technologies used by the ESET PROTECT Platform, please visit here. For more information about the ESET PROTECT Platform, please visit our dedicated webpage. For more information about ESET Cloud Office Security and the ESET AI Advisor, please visit our webpage and our AI blog. To discover how ESET has been handling ransomware, please read ESET MDR success stories and ESET Inspect's preventive power. About ESET: ESET® provides cutting-edge digital security to prevent attacks before they happen. By combining the power of AI and human expertise, ESET stays ahead of emerging global cyberthreats, both known and unknown— securing businesses, critical infrastructure, and individuals. Whether it's endpoint, cloud or mobile protection, our AI-native, cloud-first solutions and services remain highly effective and easy to use. ESET technology includes robust detection and response, ultra-secure encryption, and multifactor authentication. With 24/7 real-time defense and strong local support, we keep users safe and businesses running without interruption. The ever-evolving digital landscape demands a progressive approach to security: ESET is committed to world-class research and powerful threat intelligence, backed by R&D centers and a strong global partner network.
Boston Globe
16-02-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Justice Department's independence is threatened as Trump's team asserts power over cases and staff
Even for a department that has endured its share of scandals, the moves have produced upheaval not seen in decades, tested its independence and rattled the foundations of an institution that has long prided itself on being driven solely by facts, evidence and the law. As firings and resignations mount, the unrest raises the question of whether a president who raged against his own Justice Department during his first term can succeed in bending it to his will in his second. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'We have seen now a punishing ruthlessness that acting department leadership and the attorney general are bringing to essentially subjugate the workforce to the wishes and demands of the administration, even when it's obvious' that some of the decisions have all the signs 'of corrupting the criminal justice system,' said retired federal prosecutor David Laufman, a senior department official across Democratic and Republican administrations. Advertisement He spoke not long after Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, resigned in protest following a directive from Emil Bove, the Justice Department's acting No. 2 official, to dismiss the case against Adams. In a letter foreshadowing her decision, Sassoon accused the department of acceding to a 'quid pro quo' — dropping the case to ensure Adams' help with Trump's immigration agenda. Though a Democrat, Adams had for months positioned himself as eager to aid the administration's effort in America's largest city, even meeting privately with Trump at Trump's Florida estate just days before the Republican took office. Multiple high-ranking officials who oversaw the Justice Department's public integrity section, which prosecutes corruption cases, joined Sassoon in resigning. Advertisement On Friday, a prosecutor involved in the Adams case, Hagan Scotten, became at least the seventh person to quit in the standoff, telling Bove in a letter that it would take a 'fool' or a 'coward' to meet his demand to drop the charges. (Bove and department lawyers in Washington ultimately filed paperwork Friday night to end the case). Though the circumstances are significantly different, the wave of resignations conjured memories of the 1973 'Saturday Night Massacre' when multiple Justice Department leaders quit rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's orders to fire the Watergate special prosecutor. 'Even though there may not be more resignations, a clear message has been sent about the objectives and the expectations of the department,' said Alberto Gonzales, who served as attorney general under Republican President George W. Bush until his 2007 resignation in the wake of the dismissal of several U.S. attorneys. 'The purpose of the department is to ensure that our laws are carried out, that those who engage in criminal wrongdoing are prosecuted and punished,' Gonzales said. And to some it may appear 'that if you have some kind of relationship with the White House, there may not be consequences for doing something that ordinary Americans engaged in similar conduct would be punished.' Bove, a former New York federal prosecutor himself who represented Trump in his criminal cases, pointedly made no assessment about the legal merits of the case against Adams. Bove cited political reasons, including the timing of the charges months before Adams' presumed reelection campaign and the restrictions the case had placed on the mayor's ability to fight illegal immigration and violent crime. Advertisement In a letter to Sassoon, Bove said case prosecutors would be subject to internal investigations. Bondi defended the decision to drop the case, asserting in a Fox News interview Friday that Adams was targeted after he criticized the Biden administration's immigration policies. Her chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, said prosecutors who refused the dismissal order have 'no place at DOJ.' 'The decision to dismiss the indictment of Eric Adams is yet another indication that this DOJ will return to its core function of prosecuting dangerous criminals, not pursuing politically motivated witch hunts,' Mizelle said in a statement that accused prosecutors without evidence of 'disordered and ulterior motives.' At the White House on Friday, Trump said he was 'not involved' in the Adams case and knew 'nothing' about it. The New York showdown follows a separate dispute between Bove and the acting FBI leadership over his demands for a list of agents involved in the investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol so the Justice Department could determine whether personnel action was warranted. The request was seen by some as a precursor to possible mass firings, but it was also consistent with Trump's fury over those criminal cases, which he erased with sweeping pardons soon after his inauguration. Bove referred to the acting FBI director's resistance to his directive as an act of 'insubordination' and said agents who 'simply followed' orders would not lose their jobs but those who acted with 'partisan intent' were at risk. In between White House terms, Trump and his allies pressed the case that the Justice Department had become 'weaponized' against conservatives and him in particular, citing separate indictments that were later dismissed after Trump won back the presidency in November. Advertisement On her first day on the job, Bondi announced the creation of a 'Weaponization Working Group,' to scrutinize the prosecutors who brought criminal and civil cases against Trump and to examine the Jan. 6 prosecutions. She wrote in a memo that the department 'must take immediate and overdue steps to restore integrity and credibility' and to ensure that personnel were 'ready and willing' to implement the president's agenda. The group, notably, was not tasked with examining other politically sensitive matters more favorable to Trump, including a special counsel's investigation of Democratic President Joe Biden's handling of classified information or the prosecution of Biden's son Hunter, who was convicted of gun and tax charges before receiving a pardon from his father in December. Among the prosecutors singled out by the working group was special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two criminal cases against Trump, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose civil fraud suit against Trump led to a nearly $500 million judgment. A frequent target of Trump's ire, James would surface again days later when Bondi, in her first news conference, announced a lawsuit against the state of New York over a law that allows people who might not be in the U.S. legally to get a driver's license. Bondi opened her remarks by saying she had 'filed charges' against James and Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, before later clarifying that she was referring to a lawsuit. More departures — and more turmoil — could be ahead. 'The prospect of the hollowing out of the Justice Department and the (FBI) is now a live and dangerous risk being played out,' said Laufman, the retired prosecutor. 'Where it goes from here, we just can't currently assess.' Advertisement
