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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

Schneier on Security

Foreign adversaries typically spend years attempting to penetrate government systems such as these, using stealth to avoid being seen and carefully hiding any tells or tracks. First, unauthorized access must be revoked and proper authentication protocols restored. To address these vulnerabilities, three immediate steps are essential.

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. As its name suggests, CVE-2015-2862 was issued in July 2015. It’s from 2015!” “It’s a patch for their own software.

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Critical flaw in VMware Cloud Director allows hackers to take over company infrastructure

Security Affairs

The vulnerability could potentially allow an authenticated attacker to gain access to corporate network, access to sensitive data, and control private clouds within an entire infrastructure. “An authenticated actor may be able to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution.

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USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack

Security Affairs

A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized service processor that monitors the physical state of a computer, network server or other hardware device using sensors and communicating with the system administrator through an independent connection. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.” Str ong passw ords, a vulnerability remediation plan, and two factors of authentication can go a long way to keep systems secure from the most basic and common attacks.” ” Cashdollar concludes.

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Thousands of RDM refrigeration systems exposed online are at risk

Security Affairs

In many cases, the web interface can be accessed without authentication. “They all come with a default username and “1234” as the default password, which is rarely changed by system administrators.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year

Security Affairs

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. To exploit the malicious code, your Webmin installation must have Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Authentication -> Password expiry policy set to Prompt users with expired passwords to enter a new one. Pierluigi Paganini.