Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

.” continues the report “While CIA was an early leader in securing our enterprise information technology (IT) system, we failed to correct acute vulnerabilities to our mission IT systems.”. Furthermore, CCI focused on building cyber weapons and neglected to also prepare mitigation packages if those tools were exposed.”

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

You never think you’re gonna be hit by ransomware,” says Ski Kacoroski , a system administrator with the Northshore School District in Washington state. Run a deep scan on all endpoints, servers, and interconnected systems to ensure there are no threats lurking on those systems, waiting to attack!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. “Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. VSA server breached. Backup data regularly.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library. When dealing with external devices and other non-primary storage media, the script opts for a more expedient strategy by selecting the root directory ().

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2023

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. Provide guidance to employees on not posting about vacations and/or holiday plans on social media.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.". there were no effective removable media controls, and historical data was available to users indefinitely.".

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

This means deploying the best cybersecurity technology that implements a zero trust paradigm; developing and implementing policies and procedures that reinforce zero trust and redundancy; and educating users and systems administrators to follow procedures that mitigate risk. Build Strong Policies and Procedures.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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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. School Systems and Educators. So, what to do?

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

System binaries (/sbin): Contains system binaries, usually for system administration (requires root privileges). Library (/lib): Stores shared libraries and kernel modules required by system binaries. Media (/media): Mount point for removable media like CDs, DVDs, or USBs. processes).

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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).

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

It could be a system administrator who has access to sensitive defense information and recently just met an attractive fitness influencer on social media (hello, Iran !). A compromised customer account might use business email compromise tactics to phish everyone in that customer’s circle.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2020

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

????????Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons. To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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