The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover. Borrowing tools It would not surprise me if this attacker, once inside Wipro’s network, used tactics and techniques that have come into everyday use in advanced persistent threat (APT) types of hacks.

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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. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2022

It allows system administrators and power users to perform administrative tasks via a command line—an area where Windows previously lagged behind its Unix-like rivals with their proliferation of *sh shells.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

It guides system administrators and developers of National Security Systems on how to deploy Kubernetes with example configurations for the recommended hardening measures and mitigations. Use firewalls to limit unneeded network connectivity and encryption to protect confidentiality.

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System Administration Architecture Firewall Risk 109

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” states the FBI’s PIN alert. Audit network configurations and isolate computer systems that cannot be updated.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. “I added firewall rules that blocked access to the router from outside the local network,” Alexey wrote.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Disable File and Printer sharing services. the extension matches the file header).

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Malware Government Passwords Advertising 139

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. For a full drill down on our discussion give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Big data Firewall Digital transformation Software 159

Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2024

In today’s distributed workplace model, privileged remote access to servers and systems is essential to ensure smooth operations. IT teams worldwide use SSH keys daily for remote system administration, support and maintenance, and file transfers. Secure Shell (SSH) keys play a pivotal role in facilitating this access securely.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Administrators are advised to run both firewall and antivirus applications to minimize the potential of inbound and outbound threats. Administrators may consider using IP-based access control lists (ACLs) to allow only trusted systems to access the affected systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

On that day, one of the web application firewalls (WAFs) installed in the XLabs SOC (security operations center) detected an abnormal pattern of network traffic that caught the eye of Mauricio. Since its launch, RPCBIND has been receiving updates that cover several failures, including security.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? A critical vulnerability, named “ regreSSHion “, was discovered in OpenSSH earlier this year. However, targeted attacks remain a viable possibility.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Internet network is vulnerable as cybercriminals are lurking online, waiting to intercept loopholes for hacking systems. Thus, it would be best if you secured all networks by incorporating firewalls and advanced encryption technology. Security Systems. Human Resources. Businesses require the input of human resources.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities: Cybercriminals can gain administrative access to an endpoint/server using a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service, using a brute-force method trying to guess passwords, or by using stolen credentials purchased on the Dark Web. MFA for CTE is available for the Windows platform.

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

Philips released software updates to address some of the flaws, but multiple vulnerabilities require system administrators to apply workarounds in the interim as the patches are currently in development and won’t be released for some time.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The BITS service is used by programmers and system administrators to download files from or upload files to HTTP web servers and SMB file shares. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The lightweight application collects device health information such as Operating System (OS) version , firewall status, disk encryption status, presence of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents and password status. Administrators can set access policies based on device health.

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VPN Firewall System Administration Encryption 71

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. The GCIH certification validates your ability to detect and resolve computer security incidents using a wide range of essential security skills.

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 7, 2024

I pursued a degree in computer science and was inspired to enter the cybersecurity field after deploying my first firewall. 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.

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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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. achieves performance without compromising security.

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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. August 25, 2023 Exploit publicly released for Juniper Networks OS vulnerability A number of vulnerabilities in Juniper Networks’ Junos OS affects both the SRX and EX firewall series.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. August 25, 2023 Exploit publicly released for Juniper Networks OS vulnerability A number of vulnerabilities in Juniper Networks’ Junos OS affects both the SRX and EX firewall series.

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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. Check Point.

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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. Sensitive information needs to be segregated in separate VLANs with appropriate firewall controls.

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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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Firewall Architecture Software Backups 58

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock customers using the TrueShield web application firewall (WAF) are protected by default. Administrators are urged to configure their servers to deny the use of vulnerable Diffie-Helman key exchange algorithms. Researchers provided a guide for system administrators, and the SSL Server Test can verify configuration results.

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Encryption System Administration Firewall Internet 52

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2022

All enterprises rely on Secure Shell (SSH) keys to authenticate privileged users and establish trusted access to critical systems, including application servers, routers, firewalls, virtual machines, cloud instances, and many other devices and systems.

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Encryption Authentication System Administration Firewall 59

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.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Clearly, traditional firewalls and antivirus systems will not be sufficient; the complex IIoT infrastructure demands something more advanced. With this unique identity in place, IT system administrators can track each device throughout its lifecycle, communicate securely with it, and prevent it from executing harmful processes.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is tough to do without a dedicated team and security solutions like firewalls, intrusion detection, antiviruses and more. It is possible to manage many different elevated access levels: basic user, power user, user with basic admin rights, database administrator, system administrator, etc.

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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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Passwords Authentication Architecture Risk 140

Spinone

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Antivirus software and firewalls are just the first line of defense, which is far from being 100% effective against ransomware. When someone asks you about the best ransomware protection , the first thing you’ll probably come up with is a backup. But there is a problem. Ransomware can infect backups.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption? How is the separation of duties that is ensured during the encryption process implemented in individual applications?

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