CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

NSA states APT28 has been involved in this hacking campaign since 2019 and has so far targeted many of US and UK Organizations that include those involved in manufacturing, energy, defense, logistics, media, law, education and military and political sectors.

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System Administration Manufacturing Authentication Passwords 97

McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The RSA Conference USA 2019 held in San Francisco — which is the world’s largest cybersecurity event with more than 40,000 people and 740 speakers — is a decent measuring stick for representation of women in this field. During her first few years at Booz Allen, she supported technology, innovation and risk analysis initiatives across U.S.

Cybersecurity 93

Cybersecurity Architecture Cloud Migration Risk 93

Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of the problems discovered by Pulse Secure and Mandiant involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020. The patched vulnerabilities are listed as: CVE-2019-11510 an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability. The old vulnerabilities.

VPN 86

VPN Authentication Malware System Administration 86

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. Balancing the promise against the potential of cyber risks of smart cities will be critical to realizing their potential. The potential security failure of a smart city initiative could have grave consequences.

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Technology Encryption Government System Administration 113

NopSec

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Usually, security vulnerabilities are assigned an identifier (CVE ID) and a risk score (CVSS) between one and ten. Most of the time, network and system administrators are concerned about the availability of their network and systems because of the continuous vulnerability scanning pressure.

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System Administration Risk Accountability Malware 40

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals Cloud based corporate services, such as MS Sway, introduce new challenges to traditional cyber risk management frameworks.

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Phishing Accountability Financial Services Cloud Migration 137

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report , an increasing number of organizations across the globe are now using sensitive data on digitally transformative technologies like cloud, virtualization, big data, IoT, blockchain, etc. How is data stored and used: What are the risks and how to mitigate? To Sum It Up.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In most organization system administrators can disable or change most or all SSH configurations; these settings and configurations can significantly increase or reduce SSH security risks. Key sprawl, or a lack of SSH key management, is a common situation that increases other SSH security risks. What is key sprawl?

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Risk Authentication Passwords Accountability 64

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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Cybersecurity Authentication Government System Administration 95

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

While software developers faced no additional risk from malware during this time, trouble was lurking just around the corner. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups. The Cloud Era. As more organizations migrated to the cloud, threat actors followed close behind.

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Malware Software Ransomware Adware 96

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.

VPN 120

VPN Software Authentication Encryption 120

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. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Accountability 96

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A disaster recovery plan is only as useful as it is accessible, and an inaccessible password vault could slow down literally every single part of a data recovery effort if administrators simply cannot access their accounts. MSPs act as administrators, so any tools they use get administrator privileges too.

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Ransomware Backups Passwords Software 106

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. I consider digital trust, just like cyber risk management, to be a team sport. There weren't enough users of ARPANET to warrant any real scrutiny of everyone's activities.

Technology 109

Technology Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Government 109

eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

Exploitation enables attackers to falsify an SAML response, granting them administrative capabilities and unrestricted access without authentication. This poses serious security risks, particularly for organizations that handle sensitive data. Report any issues with the upgrades to guarantee system stability and security.

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Backups Authentication DDOS Engineering 67

NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

As for vulnerability identification, there have been lately a flurry of high risk threat-related vulnerabilities affecting remote connectivity systems. Those are the high-risk vulnerabilities that you should patch with priority because they represent the most risk regardless of their CVSS score.

VPN 40

VPN Accountability Risk System Administration 40

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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Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 145

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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Malware Social Engineering Encryption Marketing 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Establish a session inactivity timeout as short as possible, based on balancing risk and business functional requirements. Different cryptographic approaches, such as symmetric-key cryptography or public-key cryptography, can be deployed throughout the transfer of information and storage depending on the security demands and risks present.

Authentication 79

Authentication Passwords Software Accountability 79

Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

The trend of shrinking certificate lifespans, or “short-lived certificates,” is one Sectigo predicted as far back as 2019. However, the burden of system administrators carrying this out five or six times a year should not be underestimated. Question Sectigo’s response What is Sectigo’s stance on Chrome’s proposal? What is a CRL?

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Software Encryption System Administration CISO 49

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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Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Mobile 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And they traced the cybersecurity failures to a lack of leadership and a vacant Chief Information Security Officer role: "The problems started at the top: Twitter had not had a chief information security officer (“CISO”) since December 2019, seven months before the Twitter Hack. We've discovered a catastrophic bug in your version of RSTS/E.

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Social Engineering Media Scams Financial Services 104

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When your organization builds and deploys an app, you're also inheriting the risk from each and every one of those code components. A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. The risks don’t stop there.

Software 52

Software System Administration Risk Cybersecurity 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When your organization builds and deploys an app, you're also inheriting the risk from each and every one of those code components. A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. The risks don’t stop there.

Software 40

Software System Administration Risk Cybersecurity 40

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When your organization builds and deploys an app, you're also inheriting the risk from each and every one of those code components. A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. The risks don’t stop there.

Software 40

Software System Administration Risk Cybersecurity 40

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. This is a national-security risk as well as a personal-security risk. More important, the risk of a similar but more politically targeted attack wouldn't be so great.

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