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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

com is no longer responding, but a cached copy of it from Archive.org shows that for about four years it included in its HTML source a Google Analytics code of US-2665744 , which was also present on more than a dozen other websites. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net. com, such as abuseipdb[.]com

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Stuck in a rut Enter SOAR, which takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies and applies them to cybersecurity. PowerShell is a command-line shell designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage system configurations. Talk more soon.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. RDC emerged as a go-to productivity tool, and similar controls swiftly emerged for Macs, IoS, Android and other operating systems in wide use.

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Q&A: How certifying in-house IT staffers as cyber analysts, pen testers can boost SMB security

The Last Watchdog

So, for instance, we can walk through the benefits of sending, say a system administrator or help desk technician, through CompTIA CertMaster Learn , a self-paced eLearning platform that helps prepare them to earn the CompTIA Security+ certification. LW: What about pen testing? Is this something more SMBs are looking to bring in house?

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

The source and target system administrators should be involved as well. Relevant tasks here should include: Get Migration Tools: There are tools available to assist with the migration process that span the gamut from simply identifying folders and content to using analytics to automatically migrate and classify information.

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