Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. A proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

No wonder Russia has been preparing to cut itself off from the global internet, hoping to move key government institutions to a sovereign Runet – a pan-Russian web limited to the Federation – to make them less prone to cyber attacks. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“CIA has moved too slowly to put in place the safeguards that we knew were necessary given successive breaches to other US Government agencies. Since the precedent leak of secret documents made years before by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden , the US intelligence failed again it protect its information.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

. “Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Image: treasury.gov.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 6, 2021

The NSA released new guidance providing system administrators with the tools to update outdated TLS protocols.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Chinese hackers employed open-source tools for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning, according to the government experts, they have utilized open-source router specific software frameworks, RouterSploit and RouterScan [ T1595.002 ], to identify vulnerable devices to target. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. This allows someone with a foothold on a machine to commandeer the whole box.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. intelligence service revealed these points: The breach is far broader than first believed.

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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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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 27, 2018

Challenge: Your organization has many users involved in the lifecycle management of important information assets–from knowledge workers to legal associates to system administrators and, yes, Records Managers.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

To get you started, this blog provides an overview of three learning pathways that IT Governance offers: the Azure Pathway, Microsoft 365 Pathway and the Security Specialist Roles Pathway. . It’s also suitable for those who plan to develop a specialised career as a Microsoft Azure administrator or security engineer. .

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

“Certifications range from penetration testers , government/industry regulatory compliance , ethical hacking , to industry knowledge,” he said. It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. Atlanta , Baltimore , Port of San Diego , and the island of Saint Maarten were subjected to wide scale cyber-attacks affecting vital government services and costing these municipalities millions of dollars.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The pathway is also suitable for those who plan to develop a specialised career as a Microsoft Azure administrator or security engineer. Potential job roles include IT support executive, IT support manager, system administrator, Azure administrator, security operations analyst, and identity and access admin manager.

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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. This relies on governance policies for authorization. PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

System administrator Network administrator Security administrator IT auditor Security analyst or security specialist Security consultant. IT Governance is approved by CompTIA through the CompTIA Authorized Partner Program to provide the best instructor-led exam preparation experience. Potential job roles.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2018

Nick Jovanovic, VP Federal of Thales eSecurity Federal (a division of TDSI), recently spoke with Federal Tech Talk’s John Gilroy about federal agency data security and key findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Government Edition. federal government, airs on Federal News Radio, a radio station in the Washington, D.C.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

You may not know that we developed a 4-day Email Management class in 2008 or a 2-day Social Media Governance course in 2011. It is targeted at business and information management managers responsible for their organization’s information governance and/or information management processes. How Often are AIIM's Training Courses Updated?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

The SEIA bill passed on June 27th in the Senate could be a good start to isolate and segment the most important control systems of the U.S. But government bills and regulations can at best only mandate what organizations should be doing on their own to protect themselves and the people who depend on them.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. The flaws affect a range of vendors, including widely used products from Apple, Oracle and Microsoft.

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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. Today Merit supplies IT infrastructure to schools, universities, government and other entities across the state. Merit 1981.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Products that have advanced email integration can help with the challenges unique to email by allowing system administrators to automate more of the capture activities. Federal government, it is nevertheless an option for business departments, particularly if they focus on senior staff and managers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

The shift towards consolidation, especially in the federal government, is also abundantly clear with the increase of hyperconverged infrastructure adoption and the push for organizations to do more with less. achieves performance without compromising security. What does this mean for federal agencies?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Technically, you don’t need any cyber security experience to get started, though many people entering the field will come from jobs that have similar skillsets, such as systems administration or information analysis. Is delivered by an experienced ISO 27001 practitioner, who will guide you through everything you need to know.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 12, 2020

During the height COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people globally were laid off or unable to return to work due to government orders. In order to accommodate these orders and keep people safe, state governments released new funding to provide financial relief to individuals who needed it. The Challenge. IBM Z: The Key to Efficiency .

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2024

When we asked Damian Garcia, our head of GRC (governance, risk and compliance) consultancy, why that might be, he suggested that the public sector is no more likely than others to suffer this type of incident. Central and local government and critical infrastructure organisations are top of the list. Culture is very important.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

The exclusion of damages caused by hostile or warlike action by a government or sovereign power in times of war or peace requires the involvement of military action," the judges wrote. New Jersey appellate division judges rejected the insurers' argument that the 2017 attack, which U.S.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Cyber security experts and governments urge victims to never pay the ransom.

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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. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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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. Attackers use Sentry’s System Manager Portal to configure Sentry and its operating system, potentially executing operating system commands on the appliance as root, according to Ivanti.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 22, 2024

Use-cases of deployable architecture Deployable architecture is commonly used in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and government, where compliance, security and scalability are critical factors.

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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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