CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

NSA states APT28 has been involved in this hacking campaign since 2019 and has so far targeted many of US and UK Organizations that include those involved in manufacturing, energy, defense, logistics, media, law, education and military and political sectors.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

CISA reports that the Lazarus Group has been sending spearphishing messages to employees of cryptocurrency companies—often working in system administration or software development/IT operations (DevOps) roles—using a variety of communication platforms and social media. Educate users on social engineering attacks like spearphishing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 10, 2021

Jobs like cybersecurity consulting, systems engineering, cybersecurity analysis, systems administration, and vulnerability analysis have varying requirements. Don’t just equip yourself with traditional education and training-market yourself; specialize, be passionate to learn, and establish networks with professionals.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It's a frustrating reality for CIOs because these types of breaches are preventable as long as their companies implement the right technologies, policies, and procedures and educate their employees on how to be extra vigilant in the digital world. Continuously educating your workforce. Continuously Educate Your Workforce.

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That time-sink proved to be a real obstacle for systems administrators because, back in the late 90s, patches weren't scheduled. But as we discuss in today's episode of the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, patches—both in effectiveness and education—are backsliding.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Like it or not, within a few months, educational institutions have now become enterprise IT entities, taking on all the responsibilities of securely delivering qualitative technology services. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. School Systems and Educators.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. Those who pursue an in-depth technical education in all areas of information security are the target audience for the GSE certification.”

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Organizations should inspire digital transformation with security in mind, by educating stakeholders on the risks associated with these programs,” Dunne said. Dunne said in some ways, digital transformation has increased risk exposure because these shadow IT assets have grown in number and are often difficult to discover and protect.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The EC-Council Academic division awards formally highlight academic institutions and faculty within North America and across the world that excel each year with lasting impacts on their students’ cybersecurity education and local communities. Volume of students educated in Cybersecurity. Evaluation reports post class.

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 7, 2024

A strong educational foundation offers flexibility for future career paths. System administration, network security, penetration testing, professional services, product management. Also, know that others share whatever doubts and concerns you might keep locked inside your mind. Some takeaways. It's been quite a journey!

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Both were well-equipped to teach, test and train individuals ranging from teen-agers and non-technical adults, to working system administrators and even seasoned tech security pros. They’d come into our hub to get educated and attain excellent cybersecurity skills, including leadership development programs. Merit 1981.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

Starting out on a help desk, Chris worked his way up to roles as a system administrator and network engineer, eventually taking the IT helm at a power provider with a portfolio of over 30 North American plants, including three nuclear facilities.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Elizabeth got her start in technology with Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), the nation’s largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and real estate information provider. She spent 15 years at this small company across multiple functions: DBA, data architect, system administrator, technical program lead, and operations leader.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Recently, the Center for Cyber Safety and Education held its first Birds of a Feather : Newbies in Cyber webinar to promote an open dialogue and space for those leaning toward a career in cybersecurity, career changers and anyone interested in joining the field with questions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In fact, you should be lenient about the required formal education and stick to hard/soft skills related to cybersecurity in your job description writing. Firewall administration and maintenance. System administration and maintenance. Information security policies knowledge. Information security policies knowledge.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 14, 2024

Education and Certifications : Understand the importance of degrees and certifications in advancing your career. Education and Certifications for a Cybersecurity Career Earning a degree in cybersecurity is a fundamental step towards establishing yourself in the field.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 12, 2023

These online courses are provided by top educational platforms such as Udemy, Coursera, and Cybrary, leading U.S. The 5 best cybersecurity certifications in 2023 This section will cover the five best cybersecurity certifications you can complete in 2023. universities, and industry leaders like IBM.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

According to the Cisco Talos Incident Response Team, organizations in the education, manufacturing and financial services verticals were the most affected by identity-based attacks during the third quarter of 2024. Scanning an unknown QR code is the modern equivalent of clicking on a suspicious link.

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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.". It seems like an educated guess that the CIA is not a NIST shop, doesn't it? Day-to-day security practices had become woefully lax.".

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2023

Namely, there are scripts using commands that an attacker could use to steal data from the company’s network , but which also resembled legitimate administrative tasks used by IT professionals for various system administration tasks. But, lo and behold, it was a RaaS gang the whole time!

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

You can explore your options through online education platforms such as PluralSight , Cybrary , and PentesterAcademy. System Administrator (or, sysadmin). What kind of specializations are available? Specialization is a rabbit hole topic that we might not be able to cover in detail in this post. Secure Software Development.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To top it off, cybercriminals make use of legitimate services that are meant to help system administrators, such as PSexec, which allows remote execution of programs. System administrators that take care of physical networks are no longer needed — with cloud services management being an easy task.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

By concentrating on crucial patches that fix serious flaws or have a significant influence on system stability, system administrators may make sure that resources are used effectively and that possible disruptions are kept to a minimum.

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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 30, 2024

A few highlights include analysts, engineering roles in networking, IT system administration, pentesting, and leadership roles. Sysadmin roles can involve: Setting up networks and IT systems: These leaders manage setup processes for hardware, software, network connections, and user permissions.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Now that the ability to educate remotely has settled in, schools and school districts need to reassess and update their security policies. Another issue stems from not having the budget to hire a bigger cybersecurity team and pay for necessary resources, such as software and replacing old operating systems to protect school networks.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. As managing vulnerabilities in embedded systems become increasingly crucial to cybersecurity, Maria Markstedter offers her expertise as an independent security researcher and founder of Azeria Labs.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Our telemetry indicates that dozens of organizations were affected, belonging to the government or military sector, or otherwise related to the health, diplomacy, education or political verticals. Successful exploitation leads to the deployment of further malware – named DropPhone and CoreLoader. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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