SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Cisco Duo supply chain data breach What happened? User data was stolen from Cisco Duo, a service that provides organizations with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) network access, as a consequence of a phishing attack targeting an employee of a third-party telephony provider.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. ” reads the report.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? WALLIX Bastion. PAM market.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This notice has given every reader an insight into how the attack happened, what CNA did, and what they continue to do for those whose data was affected by this ransomware-attack-slash-data-breach. Phoenix posed as a browser update. You can listen to it below, or on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and Google Podcasts.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Between January and August 2020, unidentified actors used aggregation software to link actor-controlled accounts to client accounts belonging to the same institution, resulting in more than $3.5 Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.".

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered across multiple systems, including Microsoft Exchange Servers, the Bricks Builder Theme for WordPress, VMware, ScreenConnect, Joomla, and Apple Shortcuts. Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors.

Risk 113

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When you have multiple services communicating with each other through APIs, then your entire system becomes exposed when any one service gets hacked. Internal APIs are just as vulnerable to attacks, data breaches, and fraud as public APIs. Internal APIs or Private APIs are not Immune. password guessing). API Security Tools.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, some of the shadow IT application has weak or no security controls – resulting the opportunities for external collaborator accounts to be compromised or have mis-managed privileges. MVISION CNAPP helps me keep my system administrators and developers accountable for what they are doing. Learn more.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M dollars to remediate per incident. Build Strong Policies and Procedures.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 15, 2024

Threat actors exploited a weakness in Veeam’s software to create unauthorized accounts such as “VeeamBkp,” allowing for network reconnaissance and data exfiltration. The fix: Veeam addressed CVE-2023-27532 through their upgrades that prevent xp_cmdshell misuse and unauthorized account creation.

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Authentication Backups Software Risk 109

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Identity discrepancies in account entitlements led to the rise of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) a few years later, and in the last two years Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) have emerged to tie together CWPP, CSPM and CIEM into a comprehensive cloud security platform.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities.

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Hacking Data privacy Artificial Intelligence System Administration 100

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.". Lack of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls: ".there there were no effective removable media controls, and historical data was available to users indefinitely.".

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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 and privileged accounts can be exploited to attack an organization from within. Privileged Users.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In most organization system administrators can disable or change most or all SSH configurations; these settings and configurations can significantly increase or reduce SSH security risks. Disabling root account remote login - This prevents users from logging in as the root (super user) account.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). W e're from the Help Desk and are here to help.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

W3LL Phishing Tool Steals Thousands of Microsoft 365 Accounts Type of attack: W3LL, a threat actor, created a phishing kit that can defeat multi-factor authentication (MFA) , which allowed it to infiltrate over 8,000 corporate Microsoft 365 accounts. Also see the Google support page Check & update your Android version.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2025

These attacks can range from simple configuration changes that could result in data breaches to more complex scenarios where attackers gain complete control over the corporate network. As an example, let’s create a user-defined scheduler task that will run under the account labdomain.localadmin.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides detailed information of the Equifax hack. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report on the Equifax hack that includes further details on the incident. “In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. individuals.”

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