Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool. “The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” In many cases, some machines run without standard safeguards, like security updates and cloud-delivered antivirus protection.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

The certification covers active defense, defense in depth, access control, cryptography, defensible network architecture and network security, incident handling and response, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, security policy, IT risk management, virtualization and cloud security , and Windows and Linux security.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Researchers disclosed a flaw in VMware Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956 , that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. VMware Cloud Director is a cloud service-delivery platform that allows organizations to operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses. The flaw received a score of 8.8

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These solutions are typically available as software products or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, depending on the environment, whether on-premises data centers or hybrid and cloud systems. It also has a separate SaaS offering called CyberArk Privilege Cloud for hybrid and cloud environments.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

System administrator Network administrator Security administrator IT auditor Security analyst or security specialist Security consultant. Customer support administrator Desktop support manager Help desk technician IT support manager IT systems administrator Technical support engineer.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, this could happen if an insider damages the organisation’s server or deletes information from its Cloud systems. The Cloud security firm Inky found  that scammers sent 1,157 phishing emails originating from NHS mail between October 2021 and March 2022. million (about £900,000) in damages.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Users are also urged to carefully inspect the default setups and passwords, especially while installing software. . “An attacker with write access to the metadata database can insert an arbitrary pickle payload into the store, and then trigger deserialization of it, leading to remote code execution,” they noted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

In these attack scenarios, the attackers send out repeated targeted phishing attacks to employees until someone gets tired of the notifications and gives up their credentials and the one-time password token. FIDO allows users and organizations to access their resources without a username or password using an external security key.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Students, parents and teachers at each K-12 facility, henceforth, need to be treated as the equivalent of remote workers given to using a wide variety of personally-owned computing devices and their favorite cloud services subscriptions. No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons.

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