Hiring Managers Looking for Systems Administrators
Cllax
JULY 29, 2020
When your company is on the hunt for systems administrators, you can be forgiven if you feel like the deck is stacked against you. The position is a hard one. Guest Post
Cllax
JULY 29, 2020
When your company is on the hunt for systems administrators, you can be forgiven if you feel like the deck is stacked against you. The position is a hard one. Guest Post
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 7, 2019
Becoming a cloud systems administrator allows you to be on the leading edge of systems technology in heavily virtualized environments, in an IT niche that will grow
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Information Management Resources
JULY 27, 2018
In recognition of July 27 as System Administrator Appreciation Day, six technology executives share their thoughts on why these professionals are so vital to the organization. Hardware and software Data management Data types
Dark Reading
JULY 12, 2022
This Tech Tip outlines how system administrators can get started with automated continuous patching for their Windows devices and applications
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The computing giant says it doesn't yet have a patch, telling systems administrators to instead implement workarounds
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2021
A systems administrator with a school district in Washington state recounts a brush with the Ryuk ransomware and how the district recovered through tenacity and a bit of luck
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2021
System Administrators Advised to Update to Latest Version That Addresses 2 Vulnerabilities Users of the OpenSSL crypto library should upgrade immediately to the latest version to eliminate serious flaws that attackers could exploit to shut down servers, some security experts warn
Data Breach Today
APRIL 19, 2021
Fedir Hladyr of Ukraine Admitted to Working as System Admin for FIN7 A Ukrainian national who admitted to working as a system administrator and IT manager for the notorious FIN7 cybercriminal gang, which has been involved in the theft of millions of payment cards, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2022
AvosLocker Makes Use of Unpatched VMWare Virtual Desktop Software Ransomware group AvosLocker made use of unpatched VMWare Horizon applications to hack into an unidentified organization’s systems, says analysis from Cisco Talos.
KnowBe4
JULY 29, 2022
It's been 23 years of celebrating all of our fellow System Administrators! Your hard work on daily maintenance of your company's day-to-day computer operations definitely deserves kudos. KnowBe4
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 28, 2021
Sophos: 'Ghost' Accounts Present a Potential Security Danger The operators of the Nefilim ransomware used the credentials of a deceased system administrator to plant their crypto-locking malware in about 100 vulnerable systems during one attack, according to Sophos.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act. Backchannel Security
Dark Reading
MAY 17, 2018
How integrating corporate resources like the IT help desk, system administration, quality assurance and HR can breathe new life into your security program
DXC
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
But, but, as someone who cut his teeth on Unix system administration back in the 80s, I also run my own smaller private clouds using a homebrew of programs. Thanks to my job, I have accounts on many public clouds. I also have production private clouds — open-source OpenStack and NextCloud spring to mind. Self-hosting […]. Cloud
Threatpost
JANUARY 6, 2021
The NSA released new guidance providing system administrators with the tools to update outdated TLS protocols. Government Vulnerabilities and Defense Industrial Base CloudFlare Department of Defense (DoD) government Heartbleed National Security System (NSS) NSA SSL TLS 1.0
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Learn about how Okta automations can simplify your experience with Jamf in this presentation by Stephen Short, senior IT systems administrator at DISCO.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Russian internet and search company Yandex discloses a data breach, a system administrator was selling access to thousands of user mailboxes. The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support for the service.
Jamf
JUNE 25, 2020
This interview with Matt Green, is an Apple System Administrator at Lubbock-Cooper ISD, outlines his use of a powerful yet rarely-discussed feature of MDM: Managed App Configuration.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2019
The Department of Homeland Security urged system administrators to update their Windows machines after testing a working BlueKeep exploit for Windows 2000. Hacks Vulnerabilities bluekeep Bluekeep exploit critical vulnerability DHS Exploit Microsoft WannaCry Windows 2000
Quest Software
JANUARY 21, 2019
Learn the right way from this DCIG paper on system administration practices and performance monitoring tools.( Going all in to migrate to the cloud? read more ). Foglight Foglight for Virtualization
Jamf
OCTOBER 19, 2021
In this JNUC 2021 session, Joey Jenkins, Lead Systems Administrator, NC State University Libraries, and Everette Allen, Office of Information Technology, NC State University, discuss the challenges of the transition, their Jamf-assisted solutions and the lessons they’re taking into the future
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2022
Major vulnerabilities left unpatched, as well as weakly configured system administration tools are sure to get discovered and manipulated, not just once, but many times over. It’s not like if you’re trying to extract oil, and once the oil is out of the ground, it’s gone; a vulnerable system will continue to be vulnerable — until it’s patched.”. Configure system administrative tools more wisely.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 2, 2021
IT and system administrators struggle to maintain and upgrade complex, highly customized content management platforms. And that’s just to manage the basics.
Threatpost
APRIL 26, 2018
Not just a miner, the malware also sets up a hidden default account with system administrator privileges, to be used for re-infection and further attacks. Malware backdoor EternalRomance follow on attacks Monero pyromine remote desktop ShadowBrokers smb1
Krebs on Security
JULY 8, 2021
The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. “We are continuing to do forensic analysis on the system and investigating what data is actually there.”
Krebs on Security
MAY 29, 2020
The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 7, 2020
The flaw is a command injection bug that could be exploited by attackers to execute commands on the host Linux and Windows operating systems using escalated privileges. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.”
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 20, 2020
KrebsOnSecurity exposed the co-administrators of vDOS and obtained a copy of the entire vDOS database, including its registered users and a record of the attacks those users had paid vDOS to launch on their behalf.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Prosecutors say Vasinskyi was involved in a number of REvil ransomware attacks, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya , Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. The U.S.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 4, 2021
Here’s the timeline : The timeline basically seems to be, according to Check Point: 2013: NSA’s Equation Group developed a set of exploits including one called EpMe that elevates one’s privileges on a vulnerable Windows system to system-administrator level, granting full control.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 22, 2022
The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. Those messages show that after being warned of his forum infraction, Stanx sent a private message to the Verified administrator detailing his cybercriminal bona fides.
Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2021
The CVE-2021-20655 vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker with administrator rights to execute arbitrary OS commands via unspecified vectors. The vendor recommended changing system administrator account, reset access control, and installing the latest available version.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 9, 2020
that their information technology systems had been infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware. ” But on Friday, Florence Mayor Steve Holt confirmed that a cyberattack had shut down the city’s email system.
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.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 27, 2018
Challenge: Your organization has many users involved in the lifecycle management of important information assets–from knowledge workers to legal associates to system administrators and, yes, Records Managers.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 3, 2022
The perpetrators of the Solar Winds breach , for instance, tampered with a build system of the widely-used Orion network management tool. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Most often their objective is to install a back door through which they can come and go – and take full control of the underlying system anytime they please, Pericin says.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Microsoft today released software updates to plug security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. ’ In terms of prioritization, defenders should first focus on patching server systems.”
Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2021
Once compromised the device, threat actors employed it in a botnet used in attacks aimed at Linux systems, including Synology NAS. System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.
Adam Levin
MAY 24, 2019
Google has begun contacting system administrators whose organizations would have been affected by the glitch to encourage them to change their passwords. Google announced a glitch that stored unencrypted passwords belonging to several business customers, a situation that had been exploitable since 2005.
Krebs on Security
JULY 14, 2020
” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Before you update with this month’s patch batch, please make sure you have backed up your system and/or important files.
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