Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

No wonder Russia has been preparing to cut itself off from the global internet, hoping to move key government institutions to a sovereign Runet – a pan-Russian web limited to the Federation – to make them less prone to cyber attacks. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

“Certifications range from penetration testers , government/industry regulatory compliance , ethical hacking , to industry knowledge,” he said. It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. A proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

Grimes Teaches Password Best Practices What really makes a "strong" password? How do hackers crack your passwords with ease? Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT departments' existence and are literally the cause of thousands of data breaches. Currently, the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. This then drops a PowerShell script into the memory of the host computer. This is where PowerShell comes back into play.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Puerto Rico government loses $2.6 Wake County, NC, learns that third party breached government employee info (1,900). Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). million in phishing scam (unknown).

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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. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps. The 15 Vulnerabilities Explained. How to Use the CISA Catalog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

. “Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“CIA has moved too slowly to put in place the safeguards that we knew were necessary given successive breaches to other US Government agencies. Since the precedent leak of secret documents made years before by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden , the US intelligence failed again it protect its information.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. Organizations may also want to look for an IAM solution that works in hybrid environments that include private data centers as well as cloud deployments.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd? Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Least privilege access is at its core, requiring every single connection within a network to be authenticated and authorized before they are granted access to a system. This relies on governance policies for authorization. PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

System administrator Network administrator Security administrator IT auditor Security analyst or security specialist Security consultant. IT Governance is approved by CompTIA through the CompTIA Authorized Partner Program to provide the best instructor-led exam preparation experience. Potential job roles.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Sabotage A system administrator who lost his job at a paper mill served 34 months in prison after tampering with the control systems of his former employer and causing $1.1 The database also contained up to 400 files with plaintext passwords and secret keys, as well as the source code for the software.

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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. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. And they're the rare consumer product or service allowed to operate without significant government oversight.

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