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

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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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. In 2017, on his last day of work, an employee shut down President Donald Trump's account. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. grugq (@thegrugq) March 8, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and monitor the logs for signs of compromise [ D3-NTA ] [ D3-PM ]. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

All four men have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from a grand jury indictment handed down in June 2017. 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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NopSec

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Our integration with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a perfect example of how having the right data can enable the automation of everyday cybersecurity tasks. MS SCCM background Microsoft SCCM is a tool used by system administrators for software distribution and patch management in large enterprise IT environments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. The two archives were both uploaded two years ago from the same Russian IP address. I have to admit, this @virustotal find is going to be hard for me to top.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Second, this attack is not exactly new: In 2017, for instance, phishers used a similar technique to plunder accounts at Google’s Gmail service. Furthermore, even if an organization requires multi-factor authentication at sign-in, recall that this phish’s login process takes place on Microsoft’s own Web site.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. 2017 analysis of the RAT. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

. “Because the stolen data resided on a mission system that lacked user activity monitoring and a robust server audit capability, we did not realize the loss had occurred until a year later, when WikiLeaks publicly announced it in March 2017.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. The two archives were both uploaded two years ago from the same Russian IP address. I have to admit, this @virustotal find is going to be hard for me to top.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

billion in 2017. To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. billion, up from $246.8

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

From this page the targeted individual is redirected to the final destination, the actual phishing site disguised as a 2017 version of the Microsoft Single Sign-On page. This group has been conducting various activities ranging from online shopping scams to phishing attacks since 2017. The original post is available: [link].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Yakubets is considered the leader of the gang behind the Bugat malware and botnet , the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, while Turashev allegedly was tasked with other functions, including system administration, management of the internal control panel, and oversight of botnet operations. ” continues the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

W3LL first rose to popularity in 2017 by providing a platform for sending bulk emails, and it eventually concentrated on marketing a special phishing kit for Microsoft 365 business accounts. The complete BEC death chain was included in the actor’s inventory, making it available to hackers with different levels of technical proficiency.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. Elizabeth got her start in technology with Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), the nation’s largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and real estate information provider.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.". Day-to-day security practices had become woefully lax.". Lack of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls: ".there

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Logging helps system administrators keep track of which users are making changes to the environment—something that would be nearly impossible to do manually. This article was originally published on May 24, 2017. Read more: Best Penetration Testing Tools for 2021. Enable security logs. It was updated by Kaiti Norton.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Network security is typically managed by a network administrator or system administrator who keeps an eye on unauthorized access, modification, and exploitation to the network. Network security leverages both hardware and software technologies to monitor and protect an internal network and its data.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. System administrators that take care of physical networks are no longer needed — with cloud services management being an easy task.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. Teaser - Kali Sana 2017-08-22: Kali 2017.1 - KDE Desktop Fun Hacked We know everyone is a target, but also being apart of the industry we paint ourselves as a bigger target. From time-to-time we have made slip ups.

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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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