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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. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied).

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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. Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Lost passwords are an important attack vector for industrial systems. Programming.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. Multifactor Fatigue is a new kind of attack against multifactor authentication: bombarding a user with automation requests, hoping that they will accidentally approve one. Quantum Computing.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Additionally, had the website used DNSSEC to secure its DNS traffic, the attack would not have succeeded.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. Scuttlebutt is a protocol for the decentralized web that’s “ a way out of the social media rat race.” That’s new and very dangerous territory. Web and Mobile. But who will want to live in Facebook’s world?

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