Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 15, 2023

An IBM partner since 2013, Denmark-based Anycloud has been awarded Cloud Partner of the Year 2017, Technology Service Provider of the Year 2019, and Business Partner of the Year and Business Partner Excellence Award – Europe 2022. Today, we are launching the Anycloud Backup 365 (ACB365) offering on the IBM Cloud Marketplace.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and monitor the logs for signs of compromise [ D3-NTA ] [ D3-PM ]. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Equifax hack occurred in May 2017 when attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser upload function. “In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. Equifax took 76 days to detect the massive 2017 data breach.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

All four men have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from a grand jury indictment handed down in June 2017. For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. grugq (@thegrugq) March 8, 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. The two archives were both uploaded two years ago from the same Russian IP address. I have to admit, this @virustotal find is going to be hard for me to top.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Second, this attack is not exactly new: In 2017, for instance, phishers used a similar technique to plunder accounts at Google’s Gmail service. Furthermore, even if an organization requires multi-factor authentication at sign-in, recall that this phish’s login process takes place on Microsoft’s own Web site.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A version of this blog was originally published on 8 December 2017. Technically, you don’t need any cyber security experience to get started, though many people entering the field will come from jobs that have similar skillsets, such as systems administration or information analysis. How much experience do you need?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. 2017 analysis of the RAT. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

. “Because the stolen data resided on a mission system that lacked user activity monitoring and a robust server audit capability, we did not realize the loss had occurred until a year later, when WikiLeaks publicly announced it in March 2017.” ” continues the report.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 9, 2017

On August 4, 2017, the FTC published the third blog post in its “Stick with Security” series. Limit Administrative Access : While it is essential that a system administrator has the ability to change network settings in a business, this privilege should be limited to a select few people.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

Specifically, researchers believed that the current version of SB 315 could chill security research—both the purely academic and the “white hats”—ultimately discouraging individuals from identifying vulnerabilities in networks and alerting system administrators of the issues.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. The two archives were both uploaded two years ago from the same Russian IP address. I have to admit, this @virustotal find is going to be hard for me to top.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

billion in 2017. To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. billion, up from $246.8

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

From this page the targeted individual is redirected to the final destination, the actual phishing site disguised as a 2017 version of the Microsoft Single Sign-On page. This group has been conducting various activities ranging from online shopping scams to phishing attacks since 2017. The original post is available: [link].

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

The plethora of attacks has sent security professionals and system administrators scrambling to ensure their systems and backups are safe, and executives taking a second look at their cyber security programs. 2017, May 21). million dollars in recovery efforts to date. [1] Retrieved from Toronto Star: [link]. [5]

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. In 2017, on his last day of work, an employee shut down President Donald Trump's account. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 14, 2018

The scope of the potentially applicable previous orders is quite broad as it goes from the role of the so called system administrator, to stringent security measures provided for specific data processing activities (e.g. those performed by banks), to even the decision on simplified consent provided for the acceptance of cookies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Yakubets is considered the leader of the gang behind the Bugat malware and botnet , the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, while Turashev allegedly was tasked with other functions, including system administration, management of the internal control panel, and oversight of botnet operations. ” continues the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

W3LL first rose to popularity in 2017 by providing a platform for sending bulk emails, and it eventually concentrated on marketing a special phishing kit for Microsoft 365 business accounts. The complete BEC death chain was included in the actor’s inventory, making it available to hackers with different levels of technical proficiency.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New Jersey appellate division judges rejected the insurers' argument that the 2017 attack, which U.S. CERT-UA believes that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT28 (aka Fancy Bear) sent these emails and impersonated system administrators of the targeted government entities to make it easier to trick their targets."

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Logging helps system administrators keep track of which users are making changes to the environment—something that would be nearly impossible to do manually. This article was originally published on May 24, 2017. Read more: Best Penetration Testing Tools for 2021. Enable security logs. It was updated by Kaiti Norton.

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