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.

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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. The race between systems administrators and hackers to patch the Log4j vulnerability is ongoing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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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.

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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.

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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. Russian search engine and internet provider Yandex discloses a data breach, the company revealed that one of its system administrators was caught selling access to 4,887 user email accounts.

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Dark Reading

MAY 1, 2023

The phishing emails were sent using names of system administrators and a letter containing instructions to protect against hackers.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The automaker closed a hole that allowed a security researcher to gain system administrator access to more than 14,000 corporate and partner accounts and troves of sensitive data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Microsoft Corp.

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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. Configure system administrative tools more wisely. At this point, there’s little mystery about what companies need to do.

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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.

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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. Last week cybercriminals deployed ransomware to 1,500 organizations that provide IT security and technical support to many other companies.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 6, 2021

The NSA released new guidance providing system administrators with the tools to update outdated TLS protocols.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The expert used the JWT to access the GSPIMS portal and after gaining access to the platform he discovered an account with system administrator privileges. made it easy to find accounts that had elevated access to the system. I eventually uncovered a system administrator email and was able to log in to their account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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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. We sat down with Matt to discuss the apps that are helping in this time of distance learning, and the power that AppConfig brings to admins.

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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. Short will explain what Okta workflows are and how to use them, as well as provide a few examples.

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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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“This advisory emphasizes the importance for National Security System (NSS), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) system administrators to apply vendor-provided patches to affected VMware® identity management products and provides further details on how to detect and mitigate compromised networks.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 20, 2020

The 2016 story on BackConnect featured an interview with a former system administrator at FSF who said the nonprofit briefly considered working with BackConnect, and that the attacks started almost immediately after FSF told the company’s owners they would need to look elsewhere for DDoS protection.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2023

The software, used by system administrators to manage and configure networks, was communicating externally with an unfamiliar system on the internet. The DOJ asked the security firm Mandiant to help determine whether the server had been hacked.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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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.

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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.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 2, 2021

IT and system administrators struggle to maintain and upgrade complex, highly customized content management platforms. Containerization is an open-source system that uses cloud technology … The post 5 ways containerization can help Documentum administrators appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, . System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.

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DXC Technology

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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

The vendor recommended changing system administrator account, reset access control, and installing the latest available version. Experts pointed out that the attacks begun before the vendor has fixed the issues, this means that we cannot exclude that threat actors have compromised organizations using the popular file-sharing servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. ” concludes DoJ.

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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.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It’s also suitable for those who plan to develop a specialised career as a Microsoft Azure administrator or security engineer. . Potential job roles include IT support executive, IT support manager, system administrator, Azure administrator, security operations analyst, and identity and access admin manager. .

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. The GCIH certification validates your ability to detect and resolve computer security incidents using a wide range of essential security skills.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. The “about me” section of DenisKloster.com says the 35-year-old was born in Omsk, that he got his first computer at age 12, and graduated from high school at 16.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

It guides system administrators and developers of National Security Systems on how to deploy Kubernetes with example configurations for the recommended hardening measures and mitigations. The guidance details the security challenges associated with setting up and securing a Kubernetes cluster.

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