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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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Understanding Malware: A Guide for Software Developers and Security Professionals

The Crazy Programmer

The term includes a range of harmful software types including worms, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, ransomware, and adware. Spyware: Software that monitors and gathers user information secretly. Unusual pop-up windows: Malware will display annoying pop-up windows and alerts on your system. Sluggish computer performance.

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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

You already carry your mobile phone with you in the Everywhere Workplace and you can use it to unlock your Windows or Mac company-owned laptop, and it seamlessly grants you access into your work accounts in a single sign-on (SSO) workflow. No carrying your security keys everywhere that can get lost or misplaced. How cool is that?

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

The other good news is these suspicious or untrusted configuration profiles, malware, and other malicious exploits including the Pegasus spyware will be detected by Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and trigger compliance actions like block access to corporate resources or quarantine actions on the device. CalDAV calendar service settings.

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XDR protects legacy Windows, Windows Server, MacOS and Linux systems. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is critical. It is specifically designed to identify infected devices and block known exploits, malware, malicious URLs and spyware in 5G environments.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

Block legacy authentication protocols. Privilege account management, including role-based access and authentication management. In another, it used credentials stolen via phishing to log into a VPN server that wasn’t protected with multifactor authentication (MFA.). Disable automatic forwarding of emails to external domains.

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