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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. When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing.

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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. There is your MFA system right there. How cool is that?

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

Ivanti

End users are easily coaxed into divulging their precious personal information because of attention-grabbing headlines and authentic-looking, obfuscated or shortened hyperlinks. Pharming employs authentic-looking hyperlinks in phishing emails that redirect end users from a specific, legitimate site to a malicious one?by

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Regardless of where a company is based, to avoid legal problems later, it’s a good idea to build AI and other data-based systems that observe the EU’s data laws. Microsoft also provides tools and resources to help developers build responsible AI systems. Lost passwords are an important attack vector for industrial systems.

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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: Malware.

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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. are information systems security managers (a role defined by NIST). whose role involves designing security systems—again, roughly a quarter of the total. are concerned about spyware, 7.6% are managers, 7.2% are CISOs, and 1.2%

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