WIREDflipped into SecuritySolar Wind No One Knows How Deep Russia's Hacking Rampage Goes WIRED - Lily Hay Newman Since as far back as March, Russian hackers have been on a sinister tear. By slipping tainted updates into a widely used IT management platform, they …
How the U.S. Government Got HackedTechHackers believed to be linked to Russia breached computer systems belonging to several government agencies — Treasury, Homeland Security, Commerce, and the U.S. Postal Service. The intruders were able to successfully infiltrate using a vulnerability that existed within a network monitoring product sold by SolarWinds. Here's a closer look at what's described as a "monthslong global cyberspying campaign."
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Obed Ortizflipped into HtmlSolar Wind SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi factor authentication verified_publisherArs Technica - Dan Goodin Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times. The hackers behind the supply chain attack that compromised public and …
Avatarnic mooreflipped into Life HacksMicrosoft Lock down your Microsoft 365 account to prevent spying eyes, here's how verified_publisherCNET - Alison DeNisco Rayome The US government suffered a data breach after hackers targeted Microsoft Office software. Here's how to protect your Microsoft apps and accounts.
Bloombergflipped into BloombergSolar Wind Hackers Used Obscure Texas IT Vendor to Attack U.S. Agencies verified_publisherBloomberg - William Turton At the epicenter of the most sprawling cyber-attack in recent memory is a two-decade-old, Austin, Texas-based software maker called SolarWinds Corp. …
