eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Read our guide on privilege escalation attacks next to learn about the detection and prevention strategies for your privileged accounts and data.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The main differences are the location and the filename of the encrypted file: %CommonApplicationData%Localuser.key and the decryption scheme used to obtain the final payload.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? WALLIX Bastion. PAM best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Reconnaissance. Remote Desktop Software Features.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Authentication and password management. Implement password hashing on a trusted system.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Only version 1.890 is affected also in the default configuration.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Secure Shell uses encryption algorithms. Also, remember how users can use keys rather than a password to login? So, imagine Susan is a system admin and she has access to several servers. Disabling root account remote login - This prevents users from logging in as the root (super user) account.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Or, if you’re using an external API for authentication, then your authentication token could be stolen by an attacker who has gained access to the server hosting that external service via some other means such as social engineering or brute force attacks on their account credentials (e.g., password guessing). API Security Tools.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Ask your school system administrators to provide you their written cybersecurity policies and procedures concerning proposed remote learning capabilities. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. So, what to do?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. Establishing Standards for Secure Systems.

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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. Bots “public-key” and “private-key” are randomly generated at process startup time.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

Continue The Journey Continuing with our journey, we step into chapter four where we cover installation requirements, show you how to install Kali as a standard install, ARM install, unattended install and as a fully encrypted installation with LVM and LUKS.

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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). Protect your business from cyber assaults and never assume that cyber risk management occurs on its own!

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