Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Additionally, the APT group also impersonates operators or administrators of popular web portals claiming that a victim’s account has been locked following suspicious activity or fraudulent use. The advisory includes potential mitigation measures for email recipients and recipients’ systems administrators.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Read our guide on privilege escalation attacks next to learn about the detection and prevention strategies for your privileged accounts and data.

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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. Backup data regularly.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Legendary Entertainment is a global media company with multiple divisions including film, television, digital studios, and comics. However, some of the shadow IT application has weak or no security controls – resulting the opportunities for external collaborator accounts to be compromised or have mis-managed privileges. Learn more.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Research from Cybersecurity Ventures, which first appeared in the media early last year, predicts that women will represent more than 20 percent of the global cybersecurity workforce by the end of 2019. Either way, the 20 percent figure is still way too low, and our industry needs to continue pushing for more women in cyber. Ulta Beauty.

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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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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.”

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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. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

By hiding the truth and not communicating with us, what happened will be published on social media and yet in news websites. Transactions made to a Bitcoin account. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible. Your ID ==> FDHJ91CUSzXTquLpqAnP. The associated Bitcoin address is currently showing just two transactions. Code analysis.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.". there were no effective removable media controls, and historical data was available to users indefinitely.". Lack of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls: ".there

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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. School Systems and Educators. So, what to do?

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 6, 2022

The icing on the cake was how easy it was to onboard all our new users seamlessly and naturally without any friction.” – Security Account Executive , Media and Publishing Industry “We love how simple this is to use for our customers. We love the low overhead of maintenance supporting Duo for our Help Desk.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Physical security controls are clearly important for tangible information assets, including IT systems and media, documentation and people - yes, people.

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

System binaries (/sbin): Contains system binaries, usually for system administration (requires root privileges). Library (/lib): Stores shared libraries and kernel modules required by system binaries. Media (/media): Mount point for removable media like CDs, DVDs, or USBs. processes).

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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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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 post More ‘actionable’ intel needed from HHS to support health IT security appeared first on SC Media.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library. When dealing with external devices and other non-primary storage media, the script opts for a more expedient strategy by selecting the root directory ().

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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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NopSec

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

????????Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. The post Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. I've been in touch with some notable names and media and they've you know, they've assured me that they'll make a best effort. 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.

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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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies. Between approximately 3 a.m.

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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. A red team of security researchers dissected a dependency confusion campaign aimed at taking control of the networks of leading media, logistics and industrial firms in Germany. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting. Acohido.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

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. Media-savvy student body Zoom-bombing is comparatively easy to get under control.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We confirmed several victims in the manufacturing, home network service, media and construction sectors. By hiding the truth and not communicating with us, what happened will be published on social media and yet in news websites. We also found additional connections with the Andariel group. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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