Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

No wonder Russia has been preparing to cut itself off from the global internet, hoping to move key government institutions to a sovereign Runet – a pan-Russian web limited to the Federation – to make them less prone to cyber attacks. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges. “CIA has moved too slowly to put in place the safeguards that we knew were necessary given successive breaches to other US Government agencies.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Governments, NGO’s and enterprises of any size and profile are now subscribing to cloud provider services. Mature customers tend to have rules implemented governing the relationships with cloud service providers, as well as indicators for evaluating such cooperation. Businesses are opting for the cloud more and more.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

government clients. In this role, Diane is accountable for the security of the retail stores, cyber-security, infrastructure, security/network engineering, data protection, third-party risk assessments, Directory Services, SOX & PCI compliance, application security, security awareness and Identity Management.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To aid the work of network defenders and systems administrators, we also provide advice on limiting the effectiveness of these tools and detecting their use on a network.” aka TEMP.Periscope, used it in attacks on engineering and maritime entities over the past months. Credential Stealer: Mimikatz.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

But I was very fortunate to get my first job as a network and security engineer at AT&T Corp in 1998. System Administrator (or, sysadmin). Policy Management and Governance. government pays your college costs and gives you a stipend to live off of for two years. Secure DevOps. IoT (Internet of Things) Security.

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Vipre

DECEMBER 22, 2020

There are also major geopolitical implications as we believe this attack was perpetrated by a major nation state, and it’s clear that the attacker had very specific government targets in their sights. Some of the most secure companies and government agencies operated for months with no idea that attackers were deep inside their networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel. Privileged Users. They’re generally either inside or under contract to the enterprise.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They also provide cover for malicious actions from governments and organizations by introducing a layer of separation between the attackers and the attack source. This technique lets attackers deliver malicious code to thousands of systems through a vector that security measures routinely ignore?—?a a trusted vendor.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Principal Engineer, Ismael Valenzuela about how his heritage played a role in who he is today, advice for future generations and more. The 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month theme invites us to celebrate Hispanic Heritage and to reflect on how great our tomorrow can be if we hold onto our resilience and hope. I spoke with Sr.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Comprehensive training should include basic security knowledge like how to create a strong password and identify possible social engineering attacks as well as more advanced topics like risk management. Perhaps most importantly, cloud security training should help employees understand the inherent risk of shadow IT. Enable security logs.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The final payload is a remote administration tool that provides full control over the victim machine to its operators. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

government agencies such as the FAA, the IRS, the Department of the Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and NIST. Perhaps more relevant to security, MITRE maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) project.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was a government contract, and he was not allowed to bring in his own laptop nor allowed to install any software on their machines. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. Infrastructure With BackTrack, we were using subversion for our control system.

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