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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. What should they be aware of?

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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. Then you try to reset the password you just created the day before yesterday! It’s a vicious cycle.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

These are some of the TTPs used by APT29: Using brute forcing and password spraying to access service accounts, which are used to run and manage applications and services Compromising dormant accounts that haven’t been deactivated although they belong to users who no longer work at the targeted organization Using valid, unexpired tokens to access accounts (..)

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

The Stuxnet worm was spread through Microsoft Windows computers and could be carried on USB drives as well. The infection can take the form of a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or other malware like ransomware. What Is Meant by a Zero-Day Attack? MFA alone can prevent 99% of password-based cyberattacks.