The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

Wipro issued a media statement , via its Economic Times division, acknowledging “potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign. One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover.

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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. They’re found in the J-Web interface of the operating system, which is a PHP-based interface.

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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. They’re found in the J-Web interface of the operating system, which is a PHP-based interface.

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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

MAY 19, 2022

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and FWaaS. Next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ) are critical for enterprise network traffic. Encrypting Data in Transit.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Set firewall filters to prevent access to unauthorized domains. During one of the projects, an SQL injection into an application that was open to signup by any internet user let us obtain the credentials of an internal system administrator. Prevent requests to any resources not on that list.

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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.

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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. Managing supply chain risk.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

When I started my career as a penetration tester, the name of the game was all about breaching the external perimeter: finding open ports in the firewall, mapping ports and listening services, and trying to find vulnerabilities and available exploits to penetrate that layer of defense. How times have changed. Pass-the-Hash.

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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. Kennedy founded cybersecurity-focused TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems and co-authored Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide. Denial-of-Suez attack.

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

Are all Microsoft(MS) Remote Desktop connections to the outside world accounted for and adequately protected? Are all the OWA – Outlook Web Access – installations accounted for and adequately protected? Are all file sharing accounts accounted for and adequately protected? Are all CMS websites accounted for?

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VPN Accountability Risk System Administration 40

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Network control measures like firewalls, secure socket layer (SSL), and data loss prevention (DLP) tools sought to outmaneuver malicious code rather than directly combat it. 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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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The attacker usually executes the following command remotely via a task before executing this backdoor: cmd /c start /b netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="SGAccessInboundRule" dir=in protocol=udp action=allow localport=49683 This command creates a new firewall rule named SGAccessInboundRule on the targeted host.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The targeted phishing is going after folks in HR using fake but malicious resumes or payroll and accounts receivable teams to move legitimate payment accounts into attacker control. A compromised customer account might use business email compromise tactics to phish everyone in that customer’s circle.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2024

A few highlights include analysts, engineering roles in networking, IT system administration, pentesting, and leadership roles. This role includes: Setting firewall rules: Network engineers, usually administrative ones, configure rules for accepting and rejecting traffic on the network to protect its resources.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

As we roll into chapter seven, we’ll dig into security topics and cover firewall and log configuration and monitoring, package auditing and several host-based intrusion detection tools.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Patches in those systems can destabilize systems and kill people, so these industries are risk averse. They prefer to mitigate the threat in other ways, such as with firewalls and air gaps. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. Yes, this approach is controversial. Anonymous Logins.

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Patches in those systems can destabilize systems and kill people, so these industries are risk averse. They prefer to mitigate the threat in other ways, such as with firewalls and air gaps. Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. Yes, this approach is controversial.

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