Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

. “TeamViewer’s legitimate use, however, makes anomalous activity less suspicious to end users and system administrators compared to typical RATs.”. The notice further warns about the use of Windows 7, which Microsoft stopped supporting in January of last year.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Yandex is an Internet company that provides users with a suite of products like Internet browsers for all major platforms, a search engine, an ad platform and an email service. It turns out that one of the three people working support for the email service, with access to people’s email accounts, used that power for profit.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. For example, Apple Intelligence was recently rolled out in beta for the users of its latest systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

Or else they are on the verge of getting hacked by cyber crooks that could then install programs, view or delete data or even create new user accounts of a PC without the knowledge of the user or the system administration if/when on network. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. “TeamViewer’s legitimate use, however, makes anomalous activity less suspicious to end users and system administrators compared to typical RATs.”

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

During the workday, on the other hand, I spend a lot of time talking to systems administrators, security operations analysts, and IT professionals who do love MFA. All of this is continually evaluated by Duo’s trust engine and analytics. They will often ask some version of “How can I Duo less often?”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The PerSwaysion campaign proliferates with alarming rates by leveraging compromised accounts’ email data to select further targets who hold important roles in their companies and share business relations with the victims. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7, operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, published job offers for programmers (PHP, C++, Python), system administrators, and reverse engineers. The job offers for IT specialist positions ranged between $800 and $1,200 USD a month, which is a good salary for this type of position in post-Soviet states.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Some targeted entities may discount the threat posed by these social engineering campaigns, either because they do not perceive their research and communications as sensitive in nature, or because they are not aware of how these efforts fuel the regime’s broader cyber espionage efforts. .

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers found five different scripts that aim to set four CRON jobs, which are recurrent tasks you can program on a computer system. Two of them regard the current user and the rest are for the root account. How to Protect Against Shikitega. Advanced configuration hardenings are strongly recommended.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. 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

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Or, if you’re using an external API for authentication, then your authentication token could be stolen by an attacker who has gained access to the server hosting that external service via some other means such as social engineering or brute force attacks on their account credentials (e.g., password guessing). API Security Tools.

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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. Be especially aware of the owner role, which is a super-admin role: it can grant admin privileges to other accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

This actually happens a lot when researchers reverse engineer a patch. Fast forward another week and a researcher announced he’d found a way to exploit the vulnerability to achieve both local privilege escalation and remote code execution. Only in this case it had an unexpected consequence.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While we tend to associate phishing emails more with our personal accounts, attacks targeting our work identities whether through socially engineered phishing, brute force, or another form, are very common. Combined, these sectors accounted for more than 30 percent of account compromises.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. Diane Brown is the Sr.

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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. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows. The vulnerability is still active in the wild.

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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. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows. The vulnerability is still active in the wild.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

One common hurdle for systems administrators setting up new Duo Unix integrations is PAM — Pluggable Authentication Modules. We hope that the guidance below, combined with our extensive documentation , will help those setting up new integrations get their systems configured quickly and easily.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Furthermore, whether developing software for portable gadgets, desktop systems, or servers, secure coding is critical for modern software development. According to the Software Engineering Institute, software architecture or coding flaws are responsible for up to 90% of security problems. Implement password hashing on a trusted system.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

This affected system administrators worldwide. The fix: Administrators should download and install the KB5039705 OOB update via Windows Update, WSUS, or the Microsoft Update Catalog. The vulnerabilities include a use-after-free flaw in Scheduling ( CVE-2024-5157 ) and a type confusion bug in the V8 engine ( CVE-2024-5158 ).They

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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). As a CBO at Ampcus Cyber, Viral overlooks the go-to-market Strategy, channel partner programs, strategic accounts, and customer relationship management. Secure DevOps.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This technique lets attackers deliver malicious code to thousands of systems through a vector that security measures routinely ignore?—?a Kaseya provides Virtual System Administration (VSA) software to MSPs, who in turn offer cloud services to multiple customers. a trusted vendor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Such was related to a worldwide malware operation known as NullMixer, a controversial and widespread malware delivery maneuver based on SEO poisoning and social engineering technique to lure tech-savvy users, including IT personnel.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When system administrators are setting up Duo to protect applications, they will also have the ability to provide familiar and consistent names for these applications. Customers will also be able to select a specific accent color that aligns with their branding to be used throughout the authentication prompt and mobile app experience.

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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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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. And if you need more help or advice, don’t hesitate to contact me on my Twitter account: @aboutsecurity. I spoke with Sr. Read our conversation below. I can help to point you in the right direction.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Retrieves various system information, namely: Local network IP addresses. Available privileges (SYSTEM, administrator or normal user). PluginDestory [sic]. Shuts down the framework. GetSystemInfo. Network protocol used for C2 communication (hardcoded to Tcpv4 in all discovered samples).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Get an overview of how to navigate your member account, details on how to maintain your certification and advice on how to make the most of your membership. Wednesday, April 19 – (ISC)² Guide to Membership (Webinar) Join the (ISC)² membership team LIVE to learn about YOUR membership.

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SiteLock

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you use a CMS, we have a few specific pointers here specifically at WordPress, it applicable to all content management systems. The new year is a perfect reason to review your site and take out anything that isn’t being used, whether a plugin, theme, library, or user account. Be proactive and keep your site up to date and secure.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2024

On Detection: Tactical to Functional Part 12 Introduction At Shmoocon 2015, Will Schroeder (Harmj0y) gave a talk titled “ I Hunt Sys Admins ,” describing how attackers can hunt (or find the location of) system administrators throughout the network. As described in his talk, account takeover is not limited to Mimikatz.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

Sometimes companies will come up with a new domain for something, but if the address bar is not showing the domain name you are used to, you use a search engine to look for something like “Does domain belong to organization?” It is very important that you, as a consumer, know your brands. Phishing Kit – Mountain America Credit Union.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).

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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. SpinOne still allows the user account access to the environment. In other words, an employee whose user account has been victimized will still have access to his or her G Suite or Office 365 account.

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