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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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The entire technology industry received a sizable lump of coal in their collective stocking earlier this week in the form of two major security vulnerabilities in a widely-used software tool. Here’s a quick breakdown of what it means for internet users. What is Log4J? What can the average internet user do?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The group targeted organizations in multiple sectors, including defense, government, electronics, telecommunication, technology, media, telecommunication industries. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. “TeamViewer’s legitimate use, however, makes anomalous activity less suspicious to end users and system administrators compared to typical RATs.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Most of the victims of these attacks are in the gaming industry. The attacks began last week, the systems administrator Marco Hofmann first detailed them. I found these source IP addresses of the attackers in my nstraces: 45.200.42.0/24 24 220.167.109.0/24 ” wrote Hofmann.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is, how to use it, limitations and alternatives, and key changes in CVSS v4.0 Our senior penetration tester Leon Teale has more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. a medium risk [even though 3.5 is normally low].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Such uncommon vulnerability reporter alerted the whole Industry, CVE-2020-0601 quickly conquered most of the headlines. . The reason for this unusual outreach is still not clear, but Microsoft , along with many experts in the industry, confirmed it actually is an important vulnerability having real chances of being abused in the wild.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Technically, you don’t need any cyber security experience to get started, though many people entering the field will come from jobs that have similar skillsets, such as systems administration or information analysis. Where can you learn about the cyber security industry? Do you need industry connections?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

In May, the FBI and CISA also warned cyber attacks coordinated by Beijing and attempting to steal COVID-19 information from US health care, pharmaceutical, and research industry sectors. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces.

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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. One branch of this new class of attacks has focused on industrial control systems. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Both tools could be used to target SOHO and other routers manufactured by major industry providers, including Cisco, Fortinet, and MikroTik. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

Create, start, and terminate a new process and its primary thread Search, read, write, move, and execute files Get and modify file or directory timestamps Change the current directory for a process or file Delete malware and artifacts associated with the malware from the infected system. In April, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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Info Source

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Already well known in the content services industry for their annual DocuWorld Partner Conferences, DocuWare’s User Conference differs in that the focus is on educational enrichment and support for customers, not partners. User Conference in Philadelphia this week. Fujitsu, J&H, Inc., Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc.,

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators. Improved risk management : Risk assessments help organizations prioritize devices or systems to patch and protect.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

They argue that the Company failed to protect its computer systems adequately, take steps to prevent the breach, disclose material facts to consumers, and provide timely and adequate notice, among other things.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

“The analyst at Lockheed Martin emphasized that this attack could represent a “significant threat to the aviation industry.”” “Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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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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AIIM

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is targeted to individuals responsible for developing or implementing metadata models, thesauri, and taxonomies, including but not limited to records managers and IT system administrators. Cost: Specialist - $265 for AIIM members, $295 for non-members. Which Training is Right for Me?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

That a case of such potential import for the digital marketing industry has escaped any media attention for so long is unusual but not surprising given what’s at stake for the companies involved and for the government’s ongoing investigations.

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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. cybersecurity agencies, which highlighted the threats in a pair of warnings issued in recent days.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

More and more SMBs have begun dispatching their line IT staff to undergo training and get tested in order to earn basic cybersecurity certifications issued by the Computing Technology Industry Association, aka CompTIA, the non-profit trade association that empowers people to build successful tech careers.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 16, 2023

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. He also teaches courses on the history and culture of technology at a major university in upstate New York.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

To ensure security for cloud-based resources, CWPP solutions offer unified visibility and administration for physical machines, VMs, containers, and serverless workloads. Uses industry benchmarks, regulations, behavioral analytics , and machine learning for automated threat intelligence to detect and mitigate cloud security risks.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

This involves tracking patches, updating device and application status, providing patch management activity reports, and tracking compliance with industry standards and laws. Pros Configuration Manager integrates well with other Microsoft products, such as Azure Active Directory, for a more comprehensive systems administration solution.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

aerospace industry: [link] The Defense Department Now Has GPT-4 Thanks to Microsoft: [link] Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion: [link] This new satellite enters orbit with one mission: To get abused by hackers: [link] Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money: [link] U.S.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The CompTIA Security+ qualification is widely considered to be one of the best introductions to the cyber security industry. System administrator Network administrator Security administrator IT auditor Security analyst or security specialist Security consultant. CompTIA Security+. Potential job roles.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 3, 2018

In fact, those in InfoSec often come from fields such as development, system administration, and networking in that order. Unfortunately, gaining this experience is often a difficult task because of the industry changing needs and the experience specificity of the advertised position.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, lacking robust protection, privileged accounts, which are intended to give administrators the access they need to manage critical systems, can instead be manipulated to enable attackers to move laterally across an organization’s network. You can feel the importance of privilege reverberate across the industry.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Street is an industry-respected speaker and analyst and currently is the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY. With deep industry experience, Jeremiah Grossman was the Information Security Officer for Yahoo!,

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

As industry analysts consider the next zero-day threats and the implications of more ransomware and supply chain attacks, we look at the attacks and what organizations can do to defend themselves against advancing threats. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. VSA server breached.

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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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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CERT-UA believes that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT28 (aka Fancy Bear) sent these emails and impersonated system administrators of the targeted government entities to make it easier to trick their targets." APT28 is associated with Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU. Thank you." - Y.K.,

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