More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge
A third piece of malware is uncovered, but there are still plenty of unknowns about the epic attacks purportedly out of Russia.
As yet another piece of malware has been uncovered in the attack on SolarWinds network management system software, there still remain several missing elements needed to draw a complete picture of the massive cyberattacks against major US government agencies and corporations, including security vendor and incident response expert FireEye.
SolarWinds and CrowdStrike this week detailed a third malware tool dubbed Sunspot that was found in the attack on the software vendor. Sunspot is a custom program that inserted the so-called Sunburst backdoor into the software build environment of SolarWinds Orion network management product. CrowdStrike, which analyzed Sunspot on behalf of SolarWinds, says the tool was carefully planted somehow by the attackers and kept hidden from SolarWinds developers with sophisticated trackin
How does this new service fight cancer, then? While a revenue share with charitable causes is certainly a possibility, that s not the core of this new service s mission. Rather, Futuristicon aims to use the power of its customers computers.
Sharing is Caring
BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open-source project with a laudable goal: take a little bit of computing power from a lot of people and use it to make some important calculations. BOINC projects calculate solutions to complex problems for astrophysics, biology, mathematics, and pretty much every other hard science out there. The data from these calculations can be used to find novel solutions to fighting (and perhaps even curing) diseases.
The Coolest Hacks of 2020
Despite a pandemic and possibly the worst cyberattack campaign ever waged against the US, the year still had some bright spots when it came to good and creative hacks.
2020 unsurprisingly went out with a bang, and not in a good way. The massive cyberattack campaign by Russian nation state-actors shattered hopes for a quiet holiday break for security teams who have been heads-down since March when the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold and rocked SOCs. Workers including security analysts were sent home to set up makeshift offices, and existing network architectures were transformed practically overnight.
While this year for sure was fraught with disruption and uncertainty, it also made some space for ingenuity by security teams, who navigated a new normal, and security researchers, who unearthed new vulnerabilities that otherwise might not have been uncovered. In addition, some inspired white-hat hacks were already in the works before the pandemic
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Spectra Logic Wins 10 Product Innovation and Industry Leadership Awards in 2020
Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, today announced that Spectra and its solutions won 10 top industry awards from a variety of prestigious industry publications and organizations in 2020.
Top Brand for Secondary Storage in the U.S. - In a survey done by Coldago, an international research firm, Spectra Logic earned the top brand spot for Secondary Storage. The study addresses technology adoption, projects priorities and products/features, surveying end-users based in U.S. and Europe from the enterprise and SMB segments across several vertical markets.
ExaGrid Concludes 2020 with 7 Industry Award Wins and New Ransomware Recovery Solution
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:28AM IST (5:58AM GMT)
Highlights Include the Release of Software Version 6.0, Continued Global Expansion, Strong Sales Quarters, and Consecutive Award Wins
®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that the company had a successful year despite the worldwide struggles associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are grateful to our customers, reseller partners, and alliance partners who have worked with us to make 2020 such a successful year, in spite of the adversity that we have all faced during the pandemic. We are hopeful that in 2021 that there will be some return to normalcy and look forward to more in-person meetings and events,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “In the meantime, we have been fortunate that ExaGrid’s industry-leading customer support model already featured remote installatio