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Agencies Warn of Pro-Russia Hackers Targeting OT Control Systems

SecureWorld News

and allied cybersecurity agencies are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups to target and compromise operational technology (OT) systems across critical infrastructure sectors in North America and Europe. Practice and maintain the ability to operate systems manually [CPG 5.A].

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Do not add users to the local administrators group unless required.

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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

Keep operating system patches up-to-date. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Do not add users to the local administrators group unless required. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. For network devices, we should consider using RADIUS/TACACS+ for authentication purposes, not a shared user account. .” Network Device Configurations.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal. Claire LaVelle is a principal consultant QSA for Verizon Cyber Security Consulting group.

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Stop Malware Attacks and Online Identity Theft

Galido

This is mostly done to steal the identity of any authorized user, rob confidential data, degrade performance, spy on a device, disrupt a service, and/or disable the targeted network or system for the sole purpose of misusing data or exploiting resources. Do not any unknown person or group to your social media page.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

This can show "good faith" from the ransomware group by allowing targeting and recovery of just sensitive files and not having to rebuild the entire server if the Operating System files are encrypted as well. Nobody wants to be part of the organization that got hacked because they simply forgot to update their software.