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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:00:00 -0800

A start-up has emerged from stealth mode to announce what it describes as one of the world’s first enterprise-specific browsers, capable of governing how users interact with all SaaS and web applications.

The new Island web browser is based on the widely used Chromium open-source platform. Launched by a company with the same name, Island offers users a familiar online experience while governing what sites they can visit, the data they can view, and what files they can download or upload. Restrictions can be dialed up or down and can be specific to a user’s role in an organization.

For example, a user could be surfing the web with the standard Chrome, Edge, or Safari browsers, but if they try to access a site that’s off-limits based on the Island settings, they’d be blocked and told to use their secure browser. The Island browser can even stop an employee from taking screenshots of sensitive data, depending on the settings IT admins choose to implement.

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 2, 2022 admin

Why Apple’s improved 2FA protection matters to business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:01:00 -0800

Apple has introduced a new layer of protection to its existing two-factor authentication (2FA) system, making it a little harder for phishing attacks to successfully steal valuable authentication credentials.

Given that Apple, PayPal, and Amazon were the top three brands used for successful phishing attacks last year, according to a recent Jamf report, this matters.

Phishing costs billions and is bad for business

Phishing is a huge problem. The scale of these attacks shot up during the pandemic. The FBI Internet Crime Report 2020 revealed that phishing attacks affected 241,342 victims in 2020, up from 114,702 in 2019, with adjusted losses of more than $54 billion. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that 36% of data breaches that year involved phishing.

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 2, 2022 admin

Jamf CEO weighs in on Apple deployments and enterprise security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:34:00 -0800

“Apple will become the number one device ecosystem in the enterprise by the end of this decade,” Jamf CEO Dean Hager told me while introducing an in-depth enterprise security trends report that enterprises should look at.

Apple continues to see incredible growth

The nature of enterprise IT is rapidly becoming multiplatform. Jamf recently shared some details concerning the rapid growth in Apple device deployments it is seeing in business. For example, it now has 60,000 active customers, up from 36,000 two years before that – and believes new services such as Apple Business Essentials will help maintain this growth.

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MalwareBytes Security

February 2, 2022 admin

Let’s Encrypt to revoke “mis-issued” certificates

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:44:42 +0000

In one day’s time, Let’s Encrypt will begin revoking a number of mis-issued certificates. Check now if you’re affected

Categories: Privacy

Tags: certificate security SSL TLS website

Security Wired

February 2, 2022 admin

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:43:57 +0000

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom’s attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.

Security Wired

February 2, 2022 admin