Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We also recognize that defenders and system administrators operate with a lot of constraints and aren’t always able to configure their environment to their ideal security posture. Be especially aware of the owner role, which is a super-admin role: it can grant admin privileges to other accounts.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As many security researchers began this career path, I started my career in customer support and eventually found myself in system administration. Many years ago, I can remember learning how to deploy security patches, software, and operating systems via SCCM. Event ID: 4663 An attempt was made to access an object.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. In contrast, hiring real cybersecurity specialists ensures the success of the operation and limits unforeseen events.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. Reputations tend to color the way we read events. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2022

Prevent breaches by automating the collection of risk intelligence required to quickly identify and respond to SSH machine identity risks, weaknesses or security events. Being armed with information on location and owner of SSH keys can dramatically increase the speed of your response to large-scale security events. .

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2023

In an instructive and painfully honest episode of our Lock and Code podcast, Systems administrator Ski Kacoroski told us “we find out, at about 4 or 5 hours after the attack, that our backup system is completely gone.” That part really, really hurt us.” Simply having the data may not be enough.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

For those machines that need the Print Spooler service and also need to be accessible from outside the LAN, very carefully limit and monitor access events and permissions. Also at all costs avoid running the Print Spooler service on any domain controllers.

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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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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. “At While RSAC keynotes saw near gender parity this year, women made up 32 percent of our overall speakers,” noted Toms.

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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. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Hackers can use these credentials to get access to all accounts.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

A feature of Black Kingdom is the ability to clean up system logs with a single Python function. The function that cleans up system logs. This operation will result in Application, Security, and System event viewer logs being deleted. Transactions made to a Bitcoin account. Ransomware note. Code analysis.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The following paths and file names are known on attacked systems: C:Program FilesWindows MailAcroRd64.exe exe C:Program FilesWindows MailDsNcDiag.dll C:Program FilesCommon FilesVLCMediaVLCMediaUP.exe C:Program FilesCommon FilesVLCMediaDsNcDiag.dll After the launch, LoFiSe starts to track the changes in the file system. dev/collector/3.0/

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SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

But the Government Accountability Office found areas where HHS could better coordinate its efforts to support department information sharing and overall health IT security. The Department of Health and Human Services has made progress in threat sharing efforts to support cybersecurity within its partnerships and the health care sector.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

What events or opportunities are coming up for cyber newcomers? Get an overview of how to navigate your member account, details on how to maintain your certification and advice on how to make the most of your membership. These scholarships support students globally on their path to long-term career success.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Cloud IAM also helps to centralize control and access of public cloud resources so that system administrators have a better view of what is going on across the organization.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. The chain of events unfolded when the employee’s local copy of files was encrypted and then synchronized back up to the cloud. SpinOne still allows the user account access to the environment.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

A good vulnerability scanning tool should allow you to plan scans or trigger them depending on events or situations. On-Demand Scans may be used to detect folder/file collaboration events and ensure that the appropriate remedial action is taken, hence facilitating collaboration/sharing-related remediation processes.

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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). This feature is designed to guarantee an immediate response to Ransomware attacks targeting a Google Drive.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2024

On Detection: Tactical to Functional Part 12 Introduction At Shmoocon 2015, Will Schroeder (Harmj0y) gave a talk titled “ I Hunt Sys Admins ,” describing how attackers can hunt (or find the location of) system administrators throughout the network. As described in his talk, account takeover is not limited to Mimikatz.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2024

A few highlights include analysts, engineering roles in networking, IT system administration, pentesting, and leadership roles. This includes: Watching event logs: Security analysts examine event logs for normal trends that indicate a stable environment and anomalies that could indicate a threat or vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. But it’s equally important to account for their internal edge, to stop software tampering in its tracks. In today’s environment, organizations need to figure out how to secure their external edge, that’s for certain. Acohido.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. Have you done any events? I just handed out stickers, and it kind of just, it started taking off from there, I think. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So why do we keep hearing things like this: We’re also feeling relatively confident, we have a very good backup system … and then we find out at about four or five hours after the [ransomware] attack that our backup system is completely gone. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2025

As an example, let’s create a user-defined scheduler task that will run under the account labdomain.localadmin. Such changes can be tracked using event 5136 , which is generated whenever an AD object is modified.

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