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Exploit available for new critical TeamCity auth bypass bug, patch now

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-27198) in the TeamCity On-Premises CI/CD solution from JetBrains can let a remote unauthenticated attacker take control of the server with administrative permissions.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 04, 2024
- 05:42 PM
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Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password

Security researchers found that IT administrators are using tens of thousands of weak passwords to protect access to portals, leaving the door open to cyberattacks on enterprise networks.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 17, 2023
- 05:47 PM
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Okta: Hackers target IT help desks to gain Super Admin, disable MFA

Identity and access management company Okta released a warning about social engineering attacks targeting IT service desk agents at U.S.-based customers in an attempt to trick them into resetting multi-factor authentication (MFA) for high-privileged users.
- Bill Toulas
- September 04, 2023
- 11:29 AM
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Google Workspace will require two admins to sign off on critical changes

Google announced today new cybersecurity defense controls that will allow security teams to thwart account takeover attempts and social engineering attacks targeting Workspace users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 23, 2023
- 12:00 PM
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Hackers exploiting critical WordPress WooCommerce Payments bug

Hackers are conducting widespread exploitation of a critical WooCommerce Payments plugin to gain the privileges of any users, including administrators, on vulnerable WordPress installation.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 17, 2023
- 05:08 PM
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Microsoft 365 outage knocks down admin center in North America

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident impacting administrators in North America who report seeing blank pages and 404 errors when trying to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 28, 2022
- 01:12 PM
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Cisco fixes bug that lets attackers execute commands as root

Cisco has addressed severe vulnerabilities in the Cisco Nexus Dashboard data center management solution that can let remote attackers execute commands and perform actions with root or Administrator privileges.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 20, 2022
- 01:49 PM
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Google Workspace now alerts of critical changes to admin accounts

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) has been updated to notify admins of highly sensitive changes to configurations, including those made to single sign-on (SSO) profiles and admin accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 29, 2022
- 08:30 AM
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Hone your system admin skills with this Microsoft 365 training bundle deal

Knowledge of Microsoft products is part and parcel of any IT career. The Complete 2021 Microsoft 365, Windows, & Azure Bundle offers insight into how to make the best use of them for $59.99, 98% off the $5015 MSRP.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- June 22, 2022
- 02:11 PM
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Critical Jupiter WordPress plugin flaws let hackers take over sites

WordPress security analysts have discovered a set of vulnerabilities impacting the Jupiter Theme and JupiterX Core plugins for WordPress, one of which is a critical privilege escalation flaw.
- Bill Toulas
- May 18, 2022
- 05:12 PM
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Windows Terminal now can automatically launch profiles as Administrator

Microsoft released today a new Windows Terminal version that comes with a long-awaited feature making it possible to launch profiles that will automatically run as Administrator.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 03, 2022
- 03:52 PM
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Fired IT admin revenge-hacks school by wiping data, changing passwords

A 29-year old wiped data on systems of a secondary school in the U.K. and changed the passwords at an IT company, in retaliatory cyber attacks for being fired.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 06, 2021
- 03:34 AM
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Netgear fixes severe security bugs in over a dozen smart switches

Netgear has released firmware updates for more than a dozen of its smart switches used on corporate networks to address high-severity vulnerabilities.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 06, 2021
- 09:07 AM
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Office 365 to let admins block Active Content on Trusted Docs

Microsoft plans to allow Office 365 admins ensure that end-users can't ignore organization-wide policies set up to block active content on Trusted Documents.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 05, 2021
- 10:00 AM
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Windows 10 is getting a 'Windows Tools' control panel for power users

In future versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has removed the venerable 'Administrative Tools' and added a new 'Windows Tools' control panel with almost double the number of tools promoted within it.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 12, 2021
- 05:07 PM
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These courses help you become a certified cloud practitioner

Get your head in the clouds. Or more specifically, the Cloud with this series of courses and practice exams that will prepare you to become an AWS certified cloud practitioner.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- January 21, 2021
- 09:40 AM
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Critical Bug In Harbor Container Registry Gives Admin Access

Attackers can exploit a critical security vulnerability in Harbor cloud native registry for container images to obtain admin privileges on a vulnerable hosting system.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 19, 2019
- 03:28 AM
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Phishers Target Office 365 Admins with Fake Admin Alerts

Compromising an employee's email account can be profitable for BEC scammers and for distributing malware, but being able to gain access to an email domain's administrator account is a jackpot. For this reason, it is important to be aware of phishing scams that are not targeting an organization's users, but rather their administrators
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 21, 2019
- 01:15 PM
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Trojan-Riddled WinRAR, Winbox, IDM Spreads StrongPity Spyware

Some versions of WinRAR file compression tool and Winbox software for managing MikroTik users have been tampered with to install malware serving an advanced threat actor. This campaign may have started in the second half of 2018 and continues today.
- Ionut Ilascu
- July 17, 2019
- 10:34 AM
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New Microsoft Edge to Warn Users When in Administrator Mode

The upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser will warn users when they launch the browser with administrative privileges and suggest that they relaunch the browser as a non-administrator.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 16, 2019
- 12:00 PM
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