Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2018

Nick Jovanovic, VP Federal of Thales eSecurity Federal (a division of TDSI), recently spoke with Federal Tech Talk’s John Gilroy about federal agency data security and key findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Government Edition. Federal Tech Talk, which looks at the world of high technology in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. Spielerkid89, who wished to remain anonymous, did not intend to harm the organization and left its systems intact. Original post at [link].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With a quick tap on your phone, the app sends a code to the after-school program supervisor so the car can be accessed at pickup. In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Best used to effectively manage cloud resource entitlements, reduce access risks, and maintain compliance. In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services. Supports application architectures built on containers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Day in and day out their core security struggle boils down to making it harder for intruders to attain and manipulate remote access. And it doesn’t take enterprise-grade security systems to accomplish this. The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

While the attack didn’t cause customer outages, or affect the reliability of the grid, it did induce a temporary loss of visibility to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. power grid in the case of an attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to the government experts, the BLINDINGCAN malware was employed in attacks aimed at US and foreign companies operating in the military defense and aerospace sectors. A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Data inclusive on these drives include but are not limited to: User information inclusive of user names, real names, financial transactions, and further. 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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. ” The agencies also provide a list of recommendations to mitigate and detect these attacks: Keep systems and products updated and patched as soon as possible after patches are released [ D3-SU ].

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

The Georgia State Senate had recently voted 42-7 to approve SB 315, which criminalized unauthorized computer access with maximum penalties of up to one year of incarceration and a fine of $5,000. Organizations have employed bug bounty programs in an effort to encourage researchers to report security flaws in their systems.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. “In cases where decryption is not possible, some data recovery can occur.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? Enter Privileged Access Management (PAM). Privileged Access Management vs IAM.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

So, whether you’re a developer using a web application scanning tool to assess your own work, or a systems administrator doing your monthly due diligence checks with a vulnerability scanner, or a third-party security company performing a penetration test , you’re likely to use the CVSS. a medium risk [even though 3.5 is normally low].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The five tools are: Remote Access Trojan: JBiFrost. To aid the work of network defenders and systems administrators, we also provide advice on limiting the effectiveness of these tools and detecting their use on a network.” Webshell: China Chopper. Credential Stealer: Mimikatz. ” states the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

Today, the same doctrine can be applied to enterprise applications and data that is being threatened by a complex dynamic of attack vectors. Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Image: treasury.gov.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT departments' existence and are literally the cause of thousands of data breaches.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 23, 2018

I asked one of our IT leaders to walk me through some technical issues surrounding access and retention options. People in the agency know that I have a snack basket in my office, so meeting there ensures access to chocolate, chips, and oat bars. Although, we had requested the Information Governance Initiative for FY18.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network. Network admins must configure firewall rules that protect their data and applications from threat actors. Deny and alert: Notify systems administrator of potentially malicious traffic.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by insiders increased by 14% between 2018 and 2022. But who exactly is causing these incidents and why? Who are insider threats?

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 12, 2020

During the height COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people globally were laid off or unable to return to work due to government orders. In order to accommodate these orders and keep people safe, state governments released new funding to provide financial relief to individuals who needed it. The Challenge. IBM Z: The Key to Efficiency .

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here, organizations should work toward achieving an effective system-wide process between security operations, IT operations, and system administration teams to ensure everyone is on the same page. Scan findings are automatically correlated and contextualized with threat data and analysis and prioritized.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

hospitals, governments, critical infrastructure), or how much of a ransom payment an affiliate should expect for bringing the group access to a new victim network. REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

The shift towards consolidation, especially in the federal government, is also abundantly clear with the increase of hyperconverged infrastructure adoption and the push for organizations to do more with less. To avoid this, organizations must ensure that the secure enclave created is truly secure and that there is clear data ownership.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The benefits of having and using a records management playbook include [1] : Organization: The playbook includes all the information your records management team needs to operate successfully, in one organized and easy-to-access place. Here are some broad categories of records management plays—but there are a couple of points to keep in mind.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

government agencies such as the FAA, the IRS, the Department of the Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and NIST. Perhaps more relevant to security, MITRE maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) project.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

I was like living in our systems for years and I want to get in some trouble for that. In part because I use my access to cheat at radio station phones in contests and win prizes. I don't think he's, you know, holding their data hostage or exposing any sort of intellectual property. Like Porsches and trips to Hawaii.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When you’re looking for a definition of data democratization, you find a few common threads: making digital information accessible to the average user. giving people the tools to understand data and make quick decisions. opening up information systems to business users without requiring the involvement of IT personnel.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2018

million people affected by the Equifax data breach, and Alexa’s sense of humour. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 March 2018. Sam Kottler, GitHub’s site reliability engineering manager, reassured users on 1 March that “at no point was the confidentiality or integrity of [their] data at risk”.

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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. Whether the hackers had access to Twitter direct messages is not known. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. Or to escalate an international dispute.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides detailed information of the Equifax hack. The flaw allowed the attacker to make a maliciously crafted request to an Apache web server and gain access the underlying machine. “In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. individuals.”

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