WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

System Administration 83

System Administration Surveillance 83

Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Then there’s CVE-2020-1421 , which protects against potentially malicious.LNK files (think Stuxnet ) that could be exploited via an infected removable drive or remote share.

DNS 280

DNS Backups System Administration Software 280

Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

You’ve likely heard about the first, official Kali Linux book: Kali Linux Revealed, Mastering The Penetration Testing Distribution available from OffSec Press. We’ve made the book available for free in both online HTML and PDF versions because we love you. So why are we selling a book and giving it away?

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Encryption Firewall Social Engineering 52

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds.

Technology 97

Technology Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Government 97

NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

As an average person I had to refer to the book I read and to the movie I watch to experience the uncertainty caused by a full-blown pandemic. Much like in the book – and movie – Gabriel Garcia Marques, “Love in the time of cholera”. That difficult situation is now a reality in the US and in the rest of the world.

VPN 40

VPN Accountability Risk System Administration 40

McAfee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Great book by the way!). Shortly after I landed my first job, as both a web programmer and a system administrator, I found some serious security vulnerabilities in a government network, that happened to make the news, which led me to setup my own consulting business in 2000 with my Argentinian partner.

InfoSec 83

InfoSec System Administration Cybersecurity Engineering 83

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

I was working in a system administrator capacity at the bank, and I wanted to know more about cybersecurity and follow the part of my master’s degree. His latest book is “You can stop stupid : Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions”. Q: What prompted you to decide to focus more on the security aspects?

Cybersecurity 122

Cybersecurity Education Information Security Marketing 122