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What it takes to become an IT security engineer

Network World

What it takes to become an IT security engineer | PDF download. After being laid off in 2008 from his first IT job in tech support and systems administration, friends encouraged Copeland to use his networking talents to get a certification that would boost his career. CSO Online. Getting started.

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Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types

Network World

PowerShell is a scripting language for automating Windows system administration tasks. It has been abused to download malware in the past and there are even malware programs written entirely in PowerShell. Those files had malicious PowerShell scripts attached to them.

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What it takes to become an information assurance analyst

Network World

After spending 13 years working in systems administration and network and desktop support, Simeon Holloway had reached a crossroads in his career. “I While still a senior systems administrator for the Centers for Disease Control, Holloway kicked into overdrive, spending his evenings and weekends researching cybersecurity online.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

He discovered if he could find the names of the private packages used by companies (a task that turned out to be very easy in most cases), he could upload his own code to one of the public repositories with the same name, and the companies’ automated systems would use his code instead.

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Recorded Future Provides Awareness Into Issue of Government Credentials On The Open Web

CTOvision

They are regularly used to hold and share small working documents by programmers/developers/systems administrators as well as academics and students. We downloaded and reviewed the report and then sought to replicate the analysis and learn more by direct use of the Recorded Future application.

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems. The messages often mimic a recruitment effort and offer high-paying jobs to entice the recipients to download malware-laced cryptocurrency applications, which the U.S.

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Compiling libvirt 1.0.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10

Scott Lowe

VM (also up to date), and a physical system running an up-to-date instance of Ubuntu 12.04.1 Download the libvirt-1.0.0.tar.gz Now, as others have pointed out, this will create some potential system administration challenges, in that apt-get will still suggest new libvirt packages to install when you try to update the system.