Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s widely known, and endlessly repeated, that the last, best line of defence against the potentially devastating effects of a ransomware attack is your backups. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District. Why do backups fail? This is what we learned from Crape: Backups are difficult.

Backups 90

Backups Ransomware System Administration DNS 90

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

UPS Devices are emergency power backup solutions that offer electric power help in the time of emergency to hospitals, industries, data centers and utilities. Therefore, system administrators are being advised to put the connected UPS devices behind a virtual private network (VPN) and use them with a multifactor authentication in place.

Cyber threats 110

Cyber threats Internet Internet Energy and Utilities 110

eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

GitHub Enterprise Server and GitLab patched their authentication bypass and XSS issues. If your system is already exposed to a DDoS attack, explore our guidelines on how to perform DDoS attack prevention in three stages. This affected system administrators worldwide. 3.11.10, 3.10.12, and 3.9.15.

Backups 64

Backups Authentication DDOS Engineering 64

Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

One common hurdle for systems administrators setting up new Duo Unix integrations is PAM — Pluggable Authentication Modules. We hope that the guidance below, combined with our extensive documentation , will help those setting up new integrations get their systems configured quickly and easily. What is PAM? PAM Basics.

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Authentication Passwords Backups System Administration 63

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

Telecommunications 92

Telecommunications Authentication Passwords Accountability 92

SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. Broken Access Control 2.

Passwords 107

Passwords Authentication Architecture Risk 107

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week. Implement network segmentation.

VPN 114

VPN Accountability Authentication Passwords 114