eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Notable events last week include the RAMBO attack, command injection problems in Progress Software’s LoadMaster, and several zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft products that may cause privilege escalation and RCE. The tool can transmit files, keystrokes, and encryption keys, providing a significant danger of data theft.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2023

Cybercriminals like to attack at night and at weekends, and they love holidays and special events. Why out-of-office attacks work Ransomware works by encrypting huge numbers of files on as many of an organization's computers as possible. They can also likely predict when IT professionals go on vacation—the summer.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Support for remote systems and hybrid hosting environments aren’t standard but are important for today’s workforces, so some businesses may look for these features. Similarly, businesses with small IT teams or complex environments may need security information and event management (SIEM) software integration.

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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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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

If a ransomware infection encrypts files at the local hard drive level, these encrypted files simply get synchronized out to the public cloud, so files are encrypted there as well. Many cloud storage solutions offer certain sync utilities that simply synchronize local files that exist on your hard drive out to the public cloud.

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NopSec

AUGUST 13, 2013

Audit Logs for firewall, network devices, servers and hosts are most of the time the only way to determine whether or not the host has been compromised and the only way to control the activity of the system administrator. The logs need to be aggregated, safeguarded and correlated with other relevant security events.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

On 02 July 2021, details started to emerge of a sophisticated supply-chain attack targeting Kaseya VSA, virtual system administrator software used to manage and monitor customers’ infrastructure. Consequently, it makes sense for them to encrypt the compromised networks and demand a ransom to restore them.

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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. When ransomware that has infected a local copy of the file starts encrypting the files locally, this action is simply viewed as a change in the files and triggers a synchronization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since there may be no logging or tracking of such event occurrences, hackers can perform the same attack after several weeks with new credentials. Logging controls should support both the success and failure of specified security events. Encryption secures all confidential data. Log all input validation failures.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 14, 2024

Knowledge of Security Protocols: Familiarity with encryption, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and other security technologies. Participate in events organized by CyberPatriot or volunteer for security awareness programs in educational institutions. Problem-Solving Abilities: Ability to think critically and solve complex security issues.

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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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Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Where it is not possible to prevent the theft of credentials and cookies by malware, the next best thing is making the attack more observable by antivirus, endpoint detection agents, or enterprise administrators with basic log analysis tools. Export the event logs to your backend system. Create detection logic to detect theft.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. Online Puzzle We also have an online event in the form of a Jeopardy Capture The Flag (CTF) happening over at 10year.kali.org. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. See you for Kali 2023.2!

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

It starts off with this like, you know, uptempo like techno beat and it shouldn't have these flashy graphics of encryption and decryption, you know, payload and loading things like that. Have you done any events? It's something to the effect of what most people think hacking is when versus what hacking really is.

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