SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

From 2017 to 2019, the FBI says credential stuffing attacks were the most common type of attack against the financial sector, accounting for 41% of total incidents. Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.". Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dictionary.com defines it as: precautions taken to guard against crime that involves the internet, especially unauthorized access to computer systems and data connected to the internet. As the name implies, website security protects a website from cyber threats on the internet. However, there is much more to it than that.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. To top it off, cybercriminals make use of legitimate services that are meant to help system administrators, such as PSexec, which allows remote execution of programs.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “P.S. .

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

9 Security Flaws Discovered in Schweitzer Power Management Products Type of attack: The security threats associated with the flaws in Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) power management devices include remote code execution, arbitrary code execution, access to administrator rights, and watering hole attacks.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. It could be a system administrator who has access to sensitive defense information and recently just met an attractive fitness influencer on social media (hello, Iran !). Why should I care about Phish?

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. System Upgrades When the team started work switching from Slax to Ubuntu, they grabbed the latest release at the time (8.10 - Intrepid Ibex).

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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. Internet communications platforms -- such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube -- are crucial in today's society. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Equifax hack occurred in May 2017 when attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser upload function. “In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. Equifax took 76 days to detect the massive 2017 data breach.

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