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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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When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you

TechCrunch

YHBT, YHL, HAND , as they used to say in the early days of the internet. Image Credits: Sirinarth Mekvorawuth / EyeEm / Getty Images Watching legal systems trying to wrap their heads around even pretty basic technology continues to be cringe-musing, and there was a lot of that sort of thing going on this week. Anyway, on with the news!

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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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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. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.

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

Ivanti

These tools persuade the end user to tap onto a hyperlink to a specially crafted counterfeit site or internet domain. End users are easily coaxed into divulging their precious personal information because of attention-grabbing headlines and authentic-looking, obfuscated or shortened hyperlinks.

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

Tenable

As organizations continue to modernize their systems and move to cloud-based infrastructure, the SVR has adapted to these changes in the operating environment,” reads the 8-page document. The advisory details tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) observed over the past 12 months, along with detection and mitigation recommendations. “As