IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

There are a few notable exploited misconfigurations, from default built-in file sharing, and lack of password enforcement, albeit no password to multi-factor authentication (MFA), to the risks of legacy protocols and OAuth apps, that can bring a little clarity to understanding the complex landscape that is a company’s SaaS security posture.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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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 30, 2021

Least privilege access is at its core, requiring every single connection within a network to be authenticated and authorized before they are granted access to a system. PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies. This relies on governance policies for authorization.

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Authentication and password management. Passwords are one of the least safe user authentication methods, yet they are also frequently used for web applications for safeguarding online data. Authentication is the procedure of confirming that a person, organization, or site is who they say they are. Session management.

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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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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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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. Reputations tend to color the way we read events. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

This thorough scan with a comprehensive configuration helps in the identification of the software and services operating on the systems, which is critical for successful CVE scanning. Performing a complete scan with authentication, which entails giving valid login credentials, may increase the number of CVE findings identified.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Cloud IAM also helps to centralize control and access of public cloud resources so that system administrators have a better view of what is going on across the organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

They then were able to trick some 18,000 companies into deploying an authentically-signed Orion update carrying a heavily-obfuscated backdoor. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Alarmingly, this API lacks any form of authentication, allowing virtually anyone, even a malicious website you might visit, to send commands to the CLI. They can be remotely exploited without authentication, potentially enabling remote code execution, service disruptions, and arbitrary operations on the routers. via port 8076.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So why do we keep hearing things like this: We’re also feeling relatively confident, we have a very good backup system … and then we find out at about four or five hours after the [ransomware] attack that our backup system is completely gone. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

The major new security features that would debut in macOS 11 were: Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) , hardware-enforced Call Flow Integrity (CFI), implemented by Apple’s homegrown 64 bit ARM processor, the M1. Currently limited to system code and kernel extensions, but open to all third-party developers for experimentation.

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SecureList

APRIL 4, 2025

In the first part of our research , I demonstrated how we revived the concept of no authentication (null session) after many years. This involved enumerating domain information, such as users, without authentication. It’s widely used by system administrators for everyday tasks, including remote management of Windows machines.

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