Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Unfortunately, there isn’t much that can be done by laypersons; the Log4J vulnerability needs to be addressed and patched by server and system administrators. What can the average internet user do? For now, the best advice is to continue to use best practices and good cyber hygiene and hope for the best. .

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In-Demand Cybersecurity Skills While emerging technologies place new knowledge demands on cybersecurity professionals, there are evergreen skills that are in demand among data security experts. Networking and system administration: Security professionals must instinctively understand network and system concepts.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Today, if you examine any high-profile data breach, you’re likely to find memory-hacking techniques utilized at multiple key stages of the attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. ” 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.”.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While we often hear about data breaches due to external efforts from threat actors, they can also result from insider threats. “A data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team,” explained the company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. This article discusses top areas in IT where you need to strengthen cybersecurity measures to avoid data breaches and information loss: Networks. Data Security. Human Resources.

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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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rising implementations of cloud services and IoT systems, not to mention the arrival of 5G, has quickened the pace of software development and multiplied data handling complexities. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches. Take PowerShell-enabled breaches, for instance.

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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. API Security Tools.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With high-profile data breaches in the entertainment industry in recent headlines, Legendary Entertainment was concerned about its level of risk and exposure, especially since it has valuable intellectual property such as scripts and marketing strategy plans for film releases among its holdings. Unacceptable levels of risk.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

All we do is provide paid training to system administrators around the world on how to properly set up a corporate network. “For us it is just business and we are all apolitical. We are only interested in money for our harmless and useful work.

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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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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

According to a 2020 case study on one of the firms, security researchers identified more than 1,500 email addresses and 6,000 passwords exposed in more than 80 data breaches. Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.".

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here, organizations should work toward achieving an effective system-wide process between security operations, IT operations, and system administration teams to ensure everyone is on the same page. Remediate Vulnerabilities: Once vulnerabilities are identified and prioritized, the next step is to mitigate their impact.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

CWPP provides strong defenses against a wide range of risks such as malware , ransomware , DDoS attacks , configuration errors , insider threats, and data breaches. To ensure security for cloud-based resources, CWPP solutions offer unified visibility and administration for physical machines, VMs, containers, and serverless workloads.

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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.". 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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 15, 2024

Inadequate validation of user inputs causes these vulnerabilities, resulting in system takeovers, code execution, and data breaches. System administrators should promptly update to the most recent version (4.98). This is exploited by threat actors such as Velvet Ant.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

The same day as the MySpace buzzkill, Zoll Medical reported it had experienced a data breach during an email server migration that exposed select confidential patient data, including patient names, addresses, dates of birth, limited medical information, and some Social Security numbers. In short, there is no upside.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months. Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 12, 2023

Learners will develop the knowledge needed to protect organizations and data from cyberattacks while learning the basic techniques required to conduct security analysis at a business level. With this knowledge, learners will then exploit a live system to identify the risks of web applications that lack the necessary security.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

PAM focuses on larger actions such as the bulk download or alteration of databases that might give sysadmins access to a large number of accounts or critical data. These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets.

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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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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. When SSH machine identities are properly secured, this can lead to key sprawl, lost keys, lack of policy enforcement, data breach, and much more.

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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. They’re generally either inside or under contract to the enterprise.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As high-profile data breaches, such as Equifax , continue to dominate headlines, the topic of cybersecurity –or lack thereof–has commanded greater attention. It has become clear that regardless of a company’s size or industry, data breaches are inevitable.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

And generally, given the cost of data breaches, erring on the side of security is rarely a bad idea. Pros Configuration Manager integrates well with other Microsoft products, such as Azure Active Directory, for a more comprehensive systems administration solution.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The flaws can expose systems to remote code execution, credential theft, and data breaches. Apache Superset Security Vulnerabilities Resolved Type of attack: Two vulnerabilities in Apache Superset were disclosed by Horizon3.ai ai researchers and patched by the metadata database project the same day.

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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. In particular, attackers are increasingly using group policies to distribute malware, execute hidden scripts and deploy ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The attackers breached an online dispute portal than queried internal databases in an effort to find personally identifiable information (PII). “In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. The Equifax breach. Equifax took 76 days to detect the massive 2017 data breach.

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