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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Somehow SMBs must keep pace competitively, while also tamping down the rising risk of suffering a catastrophic network breach. Remote desktop risks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Critical application processes are at the greatest risk, including those that are running in air-gapped environments,” Gupta says.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. Atlanta , Baltimore , Port of San Diego , and the island of Saint Maarten were subjected to wide scale cyber-attacks affecting vital government services and costing these municipalities millions of dollars.

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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. The flaws affect a range of vendors, including widely used products from Apple, Oracle and Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks. Perhaps most importantly, cloud security training should help employees understand the inherent risk of shadow IT. What is cloud security? Enable security logs.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

Specifically, researchers believed that the current version of SB 315 could chill security research—both the purely academic and the “white hats”—ultimately discouraging individuals from identifying vulnerabilities in networks and alerting system administrators of the issues.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

To get an idea of how serious this problem might be, a 2015 report by the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies estimated a major grid attack in the U.S. The SEIA bill passed on June 27th in the Senate could be a good start to isolate and segment the most important control systems of the U.S.

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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. Cyber security experts and governments urge victims to never pay the ransom.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

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. Privileged Users. They’re generally either inside or under contract to the enterprise.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, for this thought-provoking webinar where he'll share the most common risks associated with passwords and how to develop password policies that work. and South Korean governments have issued a joint advisory outlining a North Korean phishing campaign, The Register reports. Join Roger A.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It was created in 2002 to meet the growing demand for qualified and specialised information professionals, and covers a range of topics, including network security, access controls, cryptography and risk management. You’ll also discover which training courses can help you advance in each career path and how IT Governance can help.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Typically, a security team will leverage a cloud security platform to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other cloud risks. A strong cloud security vulnerability management program analyzes risk in context to address the vulnerabilities that matter the most as quickly as possible. Benefits of Using VMaaS. Ivanti VMaaS.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Users can become desensitized to the potential risks bogus messages concerning IT issues carry with them. The risk obviously is that this killer app will devolve into social engineering at scale. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look. Informed users are the last line of defense against attacks like these.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets. 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.

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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 risks presented by negligent insiders are, by definition, harder to define. This will give staff a greater understanding of insider threats and mitigate the risk of accidental data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Deny and alert: Notify systems administrator of potentially malicious traffic. For teams in industries like financial services, healthcare, and government, the more specific the access rule, the better. But while all firewalls should protect business data and systems, some won’t need that much protection.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Unmanaged email represents a significant risk to any organization. Products that have advanced email integration can help with the challenges unique to email by allowing system administrators to automate more of the capture activities. record content. CC: and BCC: make email threads very complex and incomplete. The Smoking Gun.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For example, a law firm’s records program must deal with client records, while a government agency’s may have to deal with Freedom of Information or open records-type requirements. Organizational culture: Is your organizational culture more focused on reducing and managing risk, or on accepting reasonable risks that are relatively low impact?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Haddix continues to provide his insights while serving as the Head of Security and Risk Management for Ubisoft. Denial-of-Suez attack. pic.twitter.com/gvP2ne9kTR — Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 25, 2021.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2018

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”. This week, we discuss the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks on record, another 2.4

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erwin

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The first pillar is data governance. As described above, governance also involves understanding the guardrails — the rules, policies and regulations that are associated with the data. The risks include fines, penalties and damage to your reputation if you leave sensitive data unsecured and unencrypted.

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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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