The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale. The first worm of note that accomplished this was Stuxnet.

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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

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. Check Point.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Patches in those systems can destabilize systems and kill people, so these industries are risk averse. They prefer to mitigate the threat in other ways, such as with firewalls and air gaps. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. Yes, this approach is controversial. Anonymous Logins.

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Patches in those systems can destabilize systems and kill people, so these industries are risk averse. They prefer to mitigate the threat in other ways, such as with firewalls and air gaps. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. Yes, this approach is controversial. This is absurd.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

When I started my career as a penetration tester, the name of the game was all about breaching the external perimeter: finding open ports in the firewall, mapping ports and listening services, and trying to find vulnerabilities and available exploits to penetrate that layer of defense. How times have changed.

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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. VSA server breached. Managing supply chain risk.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The attacker usually executes the following command remotely via a task before executing this backdoor: cmd /c start /b netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="SGAccessInboundRule" dir=in protocol=udp action=allow localport=49683 This command creates a new firewall rule named SGAccessInboundRule on the targeted host.

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

Are all Microsoft(MS) Remote Desktop connections to the outside world accounted for and adequately protected? Are all the OWA – Outlook Web Access – installations accounted for and adequately protected? Are all file sharing accounts accounted for and adequately protected? Are all CMS websites accounted for?

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

As we roll into chapter seven, we’ll dig into security topics and cover firewall and log configuration and monitoring, package auditing and several host-based intrusion detection tools.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The targeted phishing is going after folks in HR using fake but malicious resumes or payroll and accounts receivable teams to move legitimate payment accounts into attacker control. A compromised customer account might use business email compromise tactics to phish everyone in that customer’s circle.

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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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