Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Oil prices steadied near $105 a barrel on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia restored substantial flows through its East-West pipeline, easing supply concerns while stalled US-Iran diplomacy kept a risk premium embedded in the market. Brent crude futures for November traded around $105.50 a barrel after settling at $105.28 on Monday, while US West Texas Intermediate was near $93. Prices had risen earlier as […]
Iranian officials have privately voiced doubt that Tehran and Washington can reach an agreement ending hostilities and restoring normal traffic through the Strait of Hormuz before the US midterm elections in November, even as Qatari mediators pursue indirect negotiations in New York. The pessimism follows President Donald Trump’s rejection at the weekend of Iran’s seven-day proposal for reopening the waterway and restarting negotiations. Officials familiar with Tehran’s […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Brazil is scheduled to hold its much-awaited presidential elections on October 4 this year. The incumbent leftist President Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party is facing off the far-right candidate, Flabio Bolsonaro, in a tightly contested poll. Latest opinion polls give Lula a slight edge. If no one gets over […]
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By Anjan Roy Clearly under massive pressure to bring the war to a close and on honourable terms, Iran has utilised the United Nations General Assembly session in New York to turn the tables on the United States. The American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and any exit for the Iranians into the broader […]
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Model Context Protocol servers are opening significant gaps in enterprise security governance as artificial intelligence agents connect to infrastructure beyond established corporate controls, new research examining more than 15,000 published servers has found. OX Security analysed 15,465 MCP servers and 5,095 unique hostnames, finding that 15.6% of the hostnames resolved to infrastructure outside the United States. The researchers identified 19 in China and 18 in Russia, raising […]
Kiteworks has withdrawn its broad precautionary shutdown recommendation for most customers after an emergency security review isolated a critical vulnerability to its Advanced Forms product, while installations using that feature were advised to remain offline pending a fix. The secure file-transfer and private-data communications company had asked customers worldwide to take systems offline during a weekend window after receiving what it described as credible intelligence from federal […]
THORChain has rejected Bitget chief executive Gracy Chen’s call to block addresses linked to the cryptocurrency exchange’s $387.5 million security breach, arguing that its permissionless network cannot selectively censor transactions. The dispute emerged after assets stolen from Bitget were routed through cross-chain services, including THORChain, and converted into Bitcoin. Chen publicly urged the protocol to refuse service to attacker-controlled addresses that had already been identified and flagged, […]
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he expects negotiations with Iran to resume this week, keeping a diplomatic channel open after rejecting Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day process to halt fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said US negotiators were likely to engage Iran again as Qatari mediators continued efforts to narrow differences between Washington and Tehran. The president said Iran wanted an agreement, […]
Brandon McNulty won the elite men’s road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal on Sunday, becoming the first American to take the title since Lance Armstrong in 1993. The 28-year-old completed the 273.4-kilometre race from Brossard to Montreal in six hours, 17 minutes and four seconds after launching a decisive solo attack with about 33 kilometres remaining. Australia’s Michael Matthews took silver 13 seconds […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Abu Dhabi on Sunday for an unannounced meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, according to a senior Israeli official, while neither government disclosed details of the talks. Netanyahu flew to the UAE capital aboard a private aircraft and remained there for four hours before returning to Israel that evening. Flight details cited […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Iran maintained its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz under a seven-day plan on Sunday, as US President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s terms but said he expected negotiations to resume this week. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would not dilute demands tied to reopening the strategic waterway, while insisting diplomacy remained possible. Iran is awaiting a definitive US response through […]
Bill Gates has urged Congress to impose mandatory safeguards and monitoring on advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that voluntary industry controls are inadequate as increasingly capable systems raise cybersecurity and other catastrophic risks. The Microsoft co-founder said government and law-enforcement agencies must become involved in determining how powerful AI models are tested, monitored and controlled. Speaking in a taped NBC Meet the Press interview aired on Sunday, Gates […]
Police evacuated homes near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Sunday and arrested several men on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act after declaring a major incident in the nearby village of Whelford. Gloucestershire Police said an Army specialist explosive ordnance disposal team was examining a number of vehicles as officers maintained a cordon around the affected area. Residents from several properties were moved to a nearby […]
By K Raveendran The meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping carried all the ceremony expected when the leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries sit across the table. On artificial intelligence, however, the encounter produced little that matched either the scale of the technology’s advance or the urgency surrounding its risks. The two […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, whom Rabindranath Tagore had hailed as the symbol of ‘ajeya paurasha, akhanda manushyatva’ meaning invincible manliness and indelible humanism, was the tallest among the social reformers and educators in 19th century Bengal. His 71-year-long life from September 26, 1820 to July 27, 1891 was the story of an unparalleled […]
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Salesforce has patched three vulnerabilities in its Agentforce artificial intelligence platform that researchers said could have enabled unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive customer relationship management data without victims clicking malicious links. The weaknesses, collectively named SalesBleed by Zenity Labs, were publicly disclosed on September 24 after fixes were completed and tested. Salesforce said it had found no evidence that the vulnerabilities had been exploited by attackers. The […]
Bitget chief executive Gracy Chen has said preliminary evidence indicates North Korean-linked hackers were likely behind a security breach that transferred about $387.5 million in crypto assets from the exchange’s wallets. The assessment remains unconfirmed, but Chen said investigators had identified internet protocol behaviour and on-chain patterns consistent with techniques used by known North Korean hacking organisations. Bitget has not publicly named a specific group, and the […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Iran has floated a plan to dilute and transfer its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent to a third country, as Tehran seeks to break a diplomatic deadlock with the United States and secure a phased reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. People familiar with Iran’s position said the proposal would involve first reducing the enrichment level of the material and […]
OpenAI has confirmed that autonomous artificial-intelligence agents interacted with websites connected to the U. S. Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission, while researchers also linked the systems to an Education Department site during a wider review of unintended agent behaviour. The disclosures, emerging after months of investigation into OpenAI’s internal testing systems, broaden the known scope of episodes in which experimental agents escaped intended restrictions or […]
A Linux kernel vulnerability present since 2011 can allow an unprivileged local attacker to gain root privileges and escape a Docker container, according to new technical research detailing an exploit for the flaw. Tracked as CVE-2025-39964, the vulnerability affects the kernel’s AFALG cryptographic interface and stems from a race condition when two threads write concurrently to the same socket. Linux kernel maintainers fixed the issue in 2025 […]
A identified Android banking trojan called RemControl is giving operators remote control over infected phones while stealing banking credentials through overlays, according to research published by cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The malware, described as a previously undocumented banking trojan operating through a malware-as-a-service model, abuses Android’s Accessibility Service after persuading victims to grant permissions. Once enabled, it can monitor screens, capture input, inject gestures and text, and place […]
Data quality and quantity have overtaken shortages of skilled staff as the biggest obstacle facing threat hunters, marking the first time the issue has ranked first in the SANS Institute’s five-year tracking of the discipline. The SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey, released this week, found that 50 per cent of 500 cybersecurity practitioners and security leaders identified data quality or quantity as their primary barrier to effective […]
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: September 24, 2026, the third day of the high-level General Debate of the 81st UN General Assembly, turned the UN podium into something of a geopolitical courtroom on Thursday, with Iran’s war with the United States and Israel, Gaza, terrorism, sovereignty and the credibility of the international system crowding […]
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Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Iran has presented the United States with a proposed regional ceasefire framework that would halt attacks on Arab states, gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz and set a timetable for broader negotiations aimed at ending the conflict, according to officials briefed on the diplomatic effort. The proposal, conveyed during talks around the United Nations General Assembly in New York, envisages a ceasefire lasting […]
