Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. It didn't matter whether individual accounts had a complicated and hard-to-remember password, or two-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so ru account is connected to the Telegram account “ Perchatka ,” (“glove” in Russian). ru account and posted as him.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2022

If you don’t have fake accounts, computers, and configurations that look vulnerable mixed in with your population of systems you are missing out. System administrators usually know their systems very well. This user had the current, real password in the description. No one should EVER use this account.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Inactive Accounts and Default Configurations. Hackers gained initial access by brute-forcing an existing account via “a simple, predictable password” to enroll a new device in the MFA procedures, the agencies said. MFA was automatically disabled because the account was inactive for a long period.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One of the flaws patched the IT giant is a critical issue, tracked as CVE-2020-3158 , while six vulnerabilities are rated as high-risk severity. The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

During the workday, on the other hand, I spend a lot of time talking to systems administrators, security operations analysts, and IT professionals who do love MFA. They’ve seen it drive down incidents and help desk tickets, reduce their risks, and make compliance programs a lot easier.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

There are a few notable exploited misconfigurations, from default built-in file sharing, and lack of password enforcement, albeit no password to multi-factor authentication (MFA), to the risks of legacy protocols and OAuth apps, that can bring a little clarity to understanding the complex landscape that is a company’s SaaS security posture.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Citadelo experts were able to perform the following actions triggering the vulnerability: View content of the internal system database, including password hashes of any customers allocated to this infrastructure. Modify the system database to steal foreign virtual machines (VM) assigned to different organizations within Cloud Director.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons. To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts.

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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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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. This is where PowerShell comes back into play.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M Companies need to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to combat account takeovers and tackle fraud at the front door and subsequently throughout their networks. dollars to remediate per incident.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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. She used SSH keygen to generate keys and she now can login to the systems via Secure Shell. These algorithms change and as they age, they become more vulnerable. What is key sprawl?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

W3LL Phishing Tool Steals Thousands of Microsoft 365 Accounts Type of attack: W3LL, a threat actor, created a phishing kit that can defeat multi-factor authentication (MFA) , which allowed it to infiltrate over 8,000 corporate Microsoft 365 accounts. Also see the Google support page Check & update your Android version.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Be On Your Guard with the Most Treacherous Insider Roles A paramount priority when addressing the threat is to distinguish the fundamental insider risks.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

As remote desktop solutions are prevalent among IT and managed service providers (MSP), downstream clients can be at risk, as Kaseya experienced in 2021. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Reconnaissance. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Check Point.

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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. Managing supply chain risk. VSA server breached.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. A security report against my American Express account?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Put passwords and disaster recovery plans on paper. Recovery plans typically identify the key systems and data inside your organization, and the shortest path to restoring critical business functions. We had to wait almost 36 hours to get our password vault restored so we could get passwords out of it,” Tipton said.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

According to an investigation conducted by Secureworks hackers were also able to access the hackers were also able to compromise the mail servers to obtain access to admin accounts. ” “ICAO maintains no type of financial or other private information which could possibly pose risks to individual Canadians.”

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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Patches in those systems can destabilize systems and kill people, so these industries are risk averse. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. The auditors claim account passwords must “be changed every 90 days”. Yes, this approach is controversial.

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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. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. The auditors claim account passwords must “be changed every 90 days”. Yes, this approach is controversial. This is absurd.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

The obvious advice here is to review the Pulse advisories for these vulnerabilities and follow the recommended guidance, which includes changing all passwords in the environments that are impacted. This vulnerability has a critical CVSS score and poses a significant risk to your deployment. The new vulnerability.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This includes exploiting several medium-risk vulnerabilities that could lead to a major compromise. A NULL session attack is something that system administrators often neglect to consider when hardening networks. The post Vulnerability Management and the Road Less Traveled appeared first on NopSec.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

The page above reveals the bottom line of this report: "This wake-up call presents us with an opportunity to right longstanding imbalances and lapses, to reorient how we view risk, redacted.We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change.".

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

They recommend tiered administration with dedicated admin accounts. Admins should use a hardened Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) when performing administrative tasks, and the admin session must require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Just-In-Time (JIT) restrictions. Tier One : Enterprise servers and applications.

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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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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.

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