The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

Their main purpose is to keep the operations consistently going in the event of a power disaster aka blackout. 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.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 3, 2021

The objective is to encourage a common language in threat actor analysis, showing system administrators how to map adversary behavior through instructions and examples. CISA created the guide in partnership with the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI), a DHS-owned R&D center operated by MITRE.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The attacks began last week, the systems administrator Marco Hofmann first detailed them. “At this time, the scope of attack is limited to a small number of customers around the world, and further, there are no known Citrix vulnerabilities associated with this event.” 24 220.167.109.0/24 ” wrote Hofmann. .

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

For computer systems that have no other time reference, being thrown back in time can cause several security issues. From the perspective of incident handling and incident response, well-synchronized time across systems facilitates log analysis, forensic activities and correlation of events. Even worse is getting shut out.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” BlackTech threat actors have hidden their activities and obscured changes made to compromised Cisco routers by concealing Embedded Event Manager (EEM) policies. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Threat actors often impersonate real journalists and broadcast writers to appear as a credible front and make inquiries to prominent about political events in the Korean peninsula. “Usually, the questions will revolve around current events and whether U.S. experts believe North Korea will re-join talks with the U.S.,

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. AsTech’s Kent said of Security+, “This crosses several domains and is a basic introduction to security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

While the attack didn’t cause customer outages, or affect the reliability of the grid, it did induce a temporary loss of visibility to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. It’s even possible that the attackers didn’t even know they were targeting a power utility.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

The use of legacy protocols such as POP or IMAP, make it difficult for system administrators to set up and activate MFA. For example, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) are event-driven. When it comes to SaaS apps they are reactive, focusing on the detection of breaches once they have occurred.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

This unfortunate turn of events shows how adversaries can quickly sneak into a system and exploit vulnerabilities to escalate privileges and compromise the whole network. System administrators can schedule scans to spot unauthorized system modifications or unwanted additional SSH accesses. Security Best Practices.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A useful exercise in that regard is to try to foresee the future trends and significant events that might be coming in the near future. This story also raises questions about whether attackers who have breached telecommunication companies would also be able to leverage these legal interception systems. The next WannaCry.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

MAY 3, 2023

ETWHash is a small C# tool used during Red Team engagements, that can consume ETW SMB events and extract NetNTLMv2 hashes for cracking offline, unlike currently documented methods. These messages can be captured and analysed by security professionals or system administrators for various purposes, including debugging and performance analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. In contrast, hiring real cybersecurity specialists ensures the success of the operation and limits unforeseen events.

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Anton on Security

JULY 21, 2021

I’m pretty sure that Windows NT system administrators of the 1990s also did not want to become part of DevOps… Next, what about the other part of the SOC, namely the “C”? As we watched current events affect security operations, we learned that SOC as a big room, full of people, may in fact disappear.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As many security researchers began this career path, I started my career in customer support and eventually found myself in system administration. Many years ago, I can remember learning how to deploy security patches, software, and operating systems via SCCM. Event ID: 4663 An attempt was made to access an object.

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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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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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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 fix: Progress Software addressed the vulnerability by sanitizing user input to prevent OS command injection.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

For those machines that need the Print Spooler service and also need to be accessible from outside the LAN, very carefully limit and monitor access events and permissions. Also at all costs avoid running the Print Spooler service on any domain controllers.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We also recognize that defenders and system administrators operate with a lot of constraints and aren’t always able to configure their environment to their ideal security posture. Consider enabling notifications for new security events. Trust Monitor now offers a suite of detections based on Device Registration.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2023

In an instructive and painfully honest episode of our Lock and Code podcast, Systems administrator Ski Kacoroski told us “we find out, at about 4 or 5 hours after the attack, that our backup system is completely gone.” Simply having the data may not be enough.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Reputations tend to color the way we read events. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. Put simply, companies can make themselves harder to hit by hackers, and less prone to compromise. In short, there is no upside.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The RSA Conference USA 2019 held in San Francisco — which is the world’s largest cybersecurity event with more than 40,000 people and 740 speakers — is a decent measuring stick for representation of women in this field. “At While RSAC keynotes saw near gender parity this year, women made up 32 percent of our overall speakers,” noted Toms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Begin with the bottom of the stack that covers the protection of physical devices through Full Disk Encryption (FDE) that offers basic protection in the event of the physical loss, theft or improper disposal of a storage device. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2023

Cybercriminals like to attack at night and at weekends, and they love holidays and special events. You never think you're gonna be hit by ransomware," said Ski Kacoroski , a system administrator with the Northshore School District in Washington state, speaking on Malwarebytes' Lock & Code podcast.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The following paths and file names are known on attacked systems: C:Program FilesWindows MailAcroRd64.exe exe C:Program FilesWindows MailDsNcDiag.dll C:Program FilesCommon FilesVLCMediaVLCMediaUP.exe C:Program FilesCommon FilesVLCMediaDsNcDiag.dll After the launch, LoFiSe starts to track the changes in the file system. dev/collector/3.0/

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, if you have 50 engineers who work with CUI, list Engineers - 50 - CUI Assets and if you have 3 System Administrators supporting the CMMC environment, list System Administrators - 3 - Security Protection Asset. This will be extremely helpful to the assessment team when validating your assessment scope.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

A feature of Black Kingdom is the ability to clean up system logs with a single Python function. The function that cleans up system logs. This operation will result in Application, Security, and System event viewer logs being deleted. Ransomware note. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They are also becoming more concerned about how the provider monitors security events, responds to malware attacks , and reports on these issues. An effective way to prevent leaks of sensitive data is to record, store, and analyze all events that occur in the information system of the cloud provider. Looking Into The Future.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet. Check Point.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This practice renders the entire encryption exercise futile as in the event of a breach, cyber criminals can easily acquire the encryption keys and thereby obtain control of the encrypted data. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here, organizations should work toward achieving an effective system-wide process between security operations, IT operations, and system administration teams to ensure everyone is on the same page. Remediate Vulnerabilities: Once vulnerabilities are identified and prioritized, the next step is to mitigate their impact.

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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. How did the campaign unfold? This ransomware supply-chain attack is not the first time REvil has targeted MSPs.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

These programs support those with minimal resources through “shared situational awareness,” which enables systems administrators to leverage threat information from similar entities to create defenses able to prevent a recurring event.

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