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🌍 Exciting News! 🌍

Our research team is honored to have two papers accepted at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2025 in Sydney 🇩đŸ‡ș. Both sessions are scheduled for October 2nd, 2025:

📄 Hybrid GEO–LEO Satellite Network for Multi-Service 5G/6G NTN Connectivity in Australia 🕙 10:15 AM | Room C4.

📄 Leveraging GEO Satellite Virtualization for Enhanced Real-Time Security in Hybrid Satellite Networks 🕜 1:30 PM | Interactive Poster B2.

Although I won’t be able to attend in person, my co-author @MuĂŁwia TirmizĂ«y will be there to present on behalf of our team.

You can find more details in my LinkedIn announcement here: 👉 [ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn: li: li:

We’re looking forward to contributing to the global conversation on multi-orbit networks, 5G/6G NTN, and secure satellite connectivity. 🚀

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Microsoft Edge to block malicious sideloaded extensions

Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser.

Edge enables developers to install extensions locally (also known as sideloading) for testing purposes before publishing them to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store by toggling the “Developer Mode” option on the Extensions management page and clicking the “Load unpacked” button.

However, users can also sideload third-party extensions that aren’t distributed through official channels and aren’t scanned for malware.

Routing photonic entanglement toward a quantum internet

Imagine the benefits if the entire internet got a game-changing upgrade to speed and security. This is the promise of the quantum internet—an advanced system that uses single photons to operate. Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new photonic router that can direct single and quantum entangled photons with unprecedented levels of efficiency. This advancement in quantum optics brings us closer to quantum networks and next-generation photonic quantum technologies becoming an everyday reality.

The findings were published in Advanced Quantum Technologies on September 2, 2025.

Photons are the backbone of many emerging quantum applications, from secure communication to powerful quantum computers. To make these technologies practical, photons must be routed quickly and reliably, without disturbing the delicate quantum states they carry.

Cloudflare mitigates new record-breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps).

DDoS attacks typically exhaust either system or network resources, aiming to make services slow or unavailable to legitimate users.

Record-breaking DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent, as just three weeks ago, Cloudflare disclosed that it mitigated a massive 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 Bpps attack, the largest publicly announced at the time.

Mozilla now lets Firefox add-on devs roll back bad updates

Mozilla has announced a new feature that enables Firefox extension developers to roll back to previously approved versions, allowing them to quickly address critical bugs and issues.

Once the latest extension version is reverted, users will no longer be able to install it. If automatic updates are enabled, the web browser will also automatically revert the extension to the previous version within 24 hours for users who have installed the buggy version.

“If developing a revised version and obtaining a review won’t address the issue quickly enough, you can roll back to an earlier version of your extension. Users then update to the rolled back version when their browser next checks for extension updates, which, by default, means within 24 hours,” Mozilla says.

Fortra Releases Critical Patch for CVSS 10.0 GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability

“A deserialization vulnerability in the License Servlet of Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT allows an actor with a validly forged license response signature to deserialize an arbitrary actor-controlled object, possibly leading to command injection,” Fortra said in an advisory released Thursday.

The company also noted that successful exploitation of the vulnerability is dependent on the system being publicly accessible over the internet.

Users are advised to update to the patched release – version 7.8.4, or the Sustain Release 7.6.3 – to safeguard against potential threats. If immediate patching is not possible, it’s advisable to ensure that access to the GoAnywhere Admin Console is not open to the public.

Engineers Bring Quantum Internet to Commercial Fiber for the First Time

A new integrated chip demonstrates how quantum networks could communicate using today’s internet protocols over existing commercial fiber-optic cables. In a groundbreaking experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully extended quantum networking beyond the laboratory by tra

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