eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

This affected system administrators worldwide. The fix: Administrators should download and install the KB5039705 OOB update via Windows Update, WSUS, or the Microsoft Update Catalog. The vulnerabilities include a use-after-free flaw in Scheduling ( CVE-2024-5157 ) and a type confusion bug in the V8 engine ( CVE-2024-5158 ).They

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7, operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, published job offers for programmers (PHP, C++, Python), system administrators, and reverse engineers. The gang was looking for administrators to map out compromised companies’ networks and locate sensitive data, including backup.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 10, 2021

An applicable degree with backup skills can provide you with a prime opportunity when a vacancy comes. Jobs like cybersecurity consulting, systems engineering, cybersecurity analysis, systems administration, and vulnerability analysis have varying requirements. Understand each job’s expectations.

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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. prior to implementing Duo.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Can spot backup and configuration files. Password cracking consists of retrieving passwords stored in computer systems. System administrators and security teams (and hackers) can use them to spot weak passwords. Social Engineer Toolkit (SET) defends against human error in social engineering threats.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

This actually happens a lot when researchers reverse engineer a patch. As a Domain Admin they could then act almost with impunity, spreading ransomware, deleting backups and even disabling security software. Only in this case it had an unexpected consequence. Mitigation.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Often, they will put comments around it with the ominous phrase, “Reverse engineering is strictly prohibited,” or something like that to scare people off from trying to figure out what it is doing. Maarten Broekman has worked as a system administrator and systems engineer for over 25 years, primarily in the shared web-hosting space.

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