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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

What is your New Year’s resolution for 2022? Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices. Ivanti’s Zero Sign-On (ZSO) can be added onto your company’s passwordless authentication solution at any time.

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

Tenable

Block legacy authentication protocols. Source: RSA Conference's “What Top CISOs Include in Updates to the Board" report, October 2022). Privilege account management, including role-based access and authentication management. TeamSpy, spyware that uses remote access tool TeamViewer and malware to steal information.

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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. In August 2022, all new applications will be required to use OpenXR; its proprietary APIs will be deprecated. That’s new and very dangerous territory. But who will want to live in Facebook’s world?

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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. We know how to address all of these.

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