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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. Turn on two-factor authentication! What would that be?

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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices. Fortunately for me, my company began enforcing zero sign-on authentication along with deploying a multi-layered anti-phishing protection system several years back.

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Humans Can be Hacked. So Stop Using Passwords, Already!

Ivanti

FIDO2 is the most secure passwordless identity authenticator option out there today especially if it is used in a multi-factor authentication (MFA) system to securely access your digital work resources and services. No carrying your security keys everywhere that can get lost or misplaced. How cool is that?

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

Not only has The Everywhere Workplace extended the cyber risk and threat landscape—especially for data privacy and its protection—but a lot of Agile software developers, many of whom lack any DevSecOps process, are publishing untested or poorly tested software that can be exploited as zero-days by criminal gangs. The most common?techniques?used?by?cybercriminals?have

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most companies have implemented multifactor authentication, endpoint security, and zero trust. Penetration testers (the “red team”) find vulnerabilities in their company’s systems by attacking; this may include breaking into secure areas, attempting to steal credentials and escalate privilege, exploiting software vulnerabilities, and more.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AWS is offering some customers a free multi factor authentication (MFA) security key. A system is installed; the default password is changed; the person who changed the password leaves; the password is lost; the company installs password recovery software, which is often malware-infested, to recover the password.

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Congratulations to the Winners Who Escaped the Dreaded Haunted House of IT

Kaseya

The Weapon: Two-Factor Authentication. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), a form of multi-factor authentication, uses a second layer of authentication to access your systems by requiring users to provide a password (something they know) and a mobile app or token (something they have). The Threat: Unpatched Software.