Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Skorodumov was one of the organization’s lead systems administrators, he configured and managed the clients’ domains and IP addresses, provided technical assistance to help clients optimize their malware and botnets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

A malicious threat can be an employee, contractor or business partner who is liable to leak sensitive information. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. Examples of insider threats 1.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One of the flaws patched the IT giant is a critical issue, tracked as CVE-2020-3158 , while six vulnerabilities are rated as high-risk severity. 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. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

It’s also surprising that the malware author would risk criminal prosecution for what must surely be a small amount of profit, given the apparently small customer base. Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Many system administrators and companies were rushing to update internet exposed machines, like web servers or gateways, worried about possible remote code execution, reviving the EternalBlue /WannaCry crisis in their mind. . What the NSA states is real: CVE-2020-0601 exposes companies to high risks.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

represented in its privacy policy that the Company used encryption and authentication tools to protect information but failed to encrypt the data (at rest) on its computer systems. The complaint also states that the Company’s “information security policies were deficient and poorly documented.”

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

SB 315 faced opposition from both private companies and information security researchers. Organizations have employed bug bounty programs in an effort to encourage researchers to report security flaws in their systems. The incident and Uber’s response prompted the U.S.

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

You might think that large data centers, for example, would be at the greatest risk, but this is not the case. The key to stealing computing power is not the efficiency of a single target, but the ease of infiltrating the system and the number of targets. Is it just one device or a whole system? Have workstations slowed down?

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 9, 2017

The post outlines two key security steps companies should take: Restrict Access to Sensitive Data : Employees who don’t use personal information in the course of their employment duties do not need to have access to it. Physical confidential data should be secured in a filing cabinet, locked desk drawer or other secure location.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 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”. It says: “Blocking port 11211 is a starting point for defenses and will prevent systems on your network from being used as reflectors. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized service processor that monitors the physical state of a computer, network server or other hardware device using sensors and communicating with the system administrator through an independent connection. ” concludes Eclypsium.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

"In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2% million workers at its client companies because of the risk of leaking confidential info, client data, source code, or regulated information to the LLM. "In

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. In recent years, Cluley has been well-known for his cybersecurity analysis, blog, and award-winning podcast Smashing Security. Denial-of-Suez attack. Jack Daniel | @jack_daniel.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Escalate privileges from “Organization Administrator” (normally a customer account) to “System Administrator” with access to all cloud accounts (organization) as an attacker can change the hash for this account. VMware has also released a workaround to mitigate the risk of exploitation for the flaw. and 10.0.0.2.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Cloud based corporate services, such as MS Sway, introduce new challenges to traditional cyber risk management frameworks. When adopting cloud based corporate services, it is crucial to enforce 2FA authentication to mitigate risks of login credential theft. The original post is available: [link]. About Group-IB.

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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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