Senior Cyber Defence Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, pointed out on Twitter earlier today, more details need to be clarified before any guilt is cast on JetBrains' role in the SolarWinds hack. ...
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...
Meanwhile, the potential legal fallout for SolarWinds in the wake of this breach continues to worsen.The Washington Postreported Tuesdaythat top investors in SolarWinds sold millions of dollars in stock in the days before the intrusion was revealed. SolarWinds’s stock price has fallen more than ...
Microsoft hastaken stepsto help secure its customers in the days since SolarWinds confirmed the attack, which was first reported by Reuters on Sunday. Several U.S. government agencieshave been breached in the attack,which impacted updates to SolarWinds' Orion software. Microsoft counts U.S. gove...
The cloud security firm says that hashed credentials are also being reset, and customers involved in the breach have been notified. Mimecast has also upgraded its encryption algorithm for stored credentials and has pulled SolarWinds Orion from its infrastructure. All impacted servers have been replace...
Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there's no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or customer data. ...
The ripple effects of the SolarWinds attack have continued into the first weeks of 2021. That’s not likely to stop — a new strain has recently been identified, highlighting just how deep and sophisticated this particular attack was.
The need for security expertise moving forward is essential for SolarWinds as the company continues to face fallout from the hack. Just this week, the Department of Justice (DoJ)announced thatcybercriminals breached its Office 365 email server as part of the massive hack. ...
For example, in the infamousSolarWinds hack, hackers used a regular software update to slip some elegant and innovative malicious code into a multitude of companies’ networks, using the SolarWinds software. For more than nine months they roamed around high-profile and sensitive companies, hiding ...
Public and Private Sector Cooperation in Response to the Attack The response to the SolarWinds hack has featured significant cooperation not only across the federal government (see the December 16joint statementby the FBI, CISA and the Office of the Director...