Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Technical details of the Makop ransomware encryption tool have been greatly deepened by the Lifars security team ( link ), so, in this article, I am going to focus on other parts of the Makop gang arsenal leveraged to conduct digital extortions. Its name is YDArk and it is an open-source tool available even on GitHub ( link ).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 16, 2023

This article discusses those questions by explaining common causes of false positives and how to mitigate them. Author Bio Chris Tozzi has worked as a Linux systems administrator and freelance writer with more than ten years of experience covering the tech industry, especially open source, DevOps, cloud native and security.

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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. If you found this article interesting please share it on your favourite social media.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

In this article, we will define automatic patch management, explain how it operates, go through its benefits and drawbacks, and list some of the best practices and top automated patch management tools of 2023. It supports patching for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, as well as third-party applications.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

Link to blog: (click on the "Maybe Later" to get to the article:) [link] Let's stay safe out there. The Kremlin counts on the appeal of conspiracy yarns and the imperative of Occam's Razor, which postulates that the truth is almost always found in the simplest explanation—no matter, in a world rife with disinformation, how improbable.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. This article originally appeared on Inc.com. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price. In short, there is no upside.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In this article, we will focus on the records management playbook—the list of plays that a records program will execute on an ongoing basis. We will look at the structure of the playbook and the plays in more detail later in this article. Much of this is included in the first section of this article. Maintaining the Playbook.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

This article looks at the security functionality of SD-WAN solutions and how to bolster SD-WAN cybersecurity. This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Jump ahead for a technical review on SD-WAN.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following.

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Adapture

MAY 18, 2021

If you noticed, that last example of a typical message in a phishing email we shared in the previous article was more customized than the previous three. For example, a spear phishing attack might be targeted at a senior system administrator, whose credentials could open the gates to the entire network.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. Google, Microsoft, and others are prioritizing their developer workflow more and more on autonomous systems. By 1999, the disjoint efforts were bursting at the seams.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Vamosi: In 2002, I wrote an article for ZDNET titled “Jail Time is Not The Answer to Cyber Crime.” But MIT didn’t press charges. So it's kind of a business model, right? It's part of it.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. Google, Microsoft, and others are prioritizing their developer workflow more and more on autonomous systems. By 1999, the disjoint efforts were bursting at the seams.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. Google, Microsoft, and others are prioritizing their developer workflow more and more on autonomous systems. By 1999, the disjoint efforts were bursting at the seams.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

I'm giving you a short extract of the story and the link to the whole article is below. The title said it all, and the news is that more than 4% of employees have put sensitive corporate data into the large language model, raising concerns that its popularity may result in massive leaks of proprietary information.

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