After taking the steps above, there's nothing more to do but wait and watch. Unfortunately, there's no better way to maintain a network's security than by remaining ever-vigilant. And in a situation like the one unleashed by the SolarWinds hack, businesses, and IT organizations, in genera...
Let’s take a look at SolarWinds Orion hack is VMware vSphere vulnerable to see what we know about the hack and specific to your vSphere virtualization environment, what steps might you take, especially if you have had the vulnerable version of SolarWinds Orion in your environment. What is S...
Third parties can be compromised to gain access to an enterprise, as happened with the 2013 Target breach and its HVAC vendor, or more recently with the SolarWinds hack. The breach can happen completely within a third party’s environment. For example, a third-party service provider might ...
Major software vulnerabilities, such as the SolarWinds hack and the Heartbleed bug, are nothing new—but this one is very different. The XZ Utils hack attempt took advantage of the way open-source software development often works. Like many open-source projects, XZ Utils is a crucial and wide...
The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of businesses and governments. The malware, affecting a product made by U.S. company SolarWinds, gave elite hackers remote access into an organization's networks so the...
Consider theSolarWindsand theMOVEitsupply chain attacks, for example. The former happened in 2020 because of understated and poorly communicated vulnerabilities, while the latter, in 2023, was caused by hackers exploiting a flaw within the file transfer software, gaining access to sensitive customer...
He was recognized for his breaking news coverage of the August 2019 coordinated ransomware attack against local governments in Texas as well as for his continued reporting around the SolarWinds hack in late 2020 and early 2021.You might also be interested in … 2024 Threat Landscape: Data Loss ...